From a fellow Philippine Rugby poster on another forum site:
http://manilatonight.com/index.php?showtopic=23734&st=120
The other thing that needs to be remembered here is that this was also a qualifying tournament for next year's 7's World Cup.
The majority of the teams were professional - paid to play with lots of resources and money and training as a unit on a full time basis.
The Philippines team was thrown together at the last minute when a position at the tournament became available - the team had a total of 2 training sessions together.
Add this that the team lacked the experience of the the other countries and you get a better perspective of the challenge that the team faced as a bunch of amateurs.
They didn't give in though, played hard and everyone should be proud of them.
