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23/04/2012
Downs A beat Snynd Park 1-0 and so finished 3rd in Divsion 2 of the Downs League. Since Torpedo Res finsihed second and they already have a team in Divison 1 the Cowboys are promoted. Well done to GB and his players.
Downs B lost their final game of the season 8-3 to Wellington Wanderers. They finish 9 out of 14 in Division 3.
The Suburbans lost to Stoke Gifford 2-3. They are currently in second place seperated from Severn Beach in third by goal difference. Tomorrow night these two teams play each other in what will be a decider for the runner’s upspot and promotion. They game is at BAWA kicking off at 6.15pm.
Netball reports thus: The A’s battered DHT today 61-25. Yes 61 goals! 1 for every minute that we played and 1 for luck. Mair got the double player vote for ‘on fire mair’ shooting.
The too’s played their last match of the season but lost 8-28. Cat got player from them and a 3 way tie of Rachel, Misty and Yo from us.
Both the cricket games scheduled for the weekend were called off due to the weather.
A few reminders :
You only have a week left before the beginning of the cricket season, so that if you plan to get a fantasy team in before the first match you better get a move on. There are now about 40 teams entered and so the pirze will be in excess of £200. If you you find picking a cricket team a bit of a mystery you can have a random team picked for you (sorry Ev but you can not use this as a method of running the Saturday Team). Find out more at eastoncowboys.org.uk/fantasy-cricket
Bring Mo Heat is at the Community Centre on Saturday 28th. At £5 for a packed night of entertainment it is geat value.
The Full Club BGM is on Monday night at Hawkes Gym.
The fancy dress netball tournament is on Sunday 6th May.
Find out more about all of these on the Diary Page.
Still Time For Fantasy
Fantasy has reported thus:
Here we go then. This is your official one week’s notice for participation in this season’s prestige cricket event.
For anyone who has still to submit their entries into the 2012 Fantasy Cricket League, if you want them to be able to score for the full season, there’s only one week left before the deadline to get your teams in.
The first league game is scheduled for Saturday 28th April, so if your teams have not been received by Thursday 26th they will not be able to score from the first weekend of the season. And there’ll be no backdating of entries – if you miss it, the opportunity to score from that week is gone for good.
Be warned! This is the competition every other cricketer in the cowboys is going to be talking about all through the season & the last thing we we want is folks going around sulking & alienated just because they couldn’t be bothered to play.
There are no excuses left; even if you can’t decide on who you should pick for your teams! As long as you’re willing to make a contribution to fundraising for this year’s tournament & get your fingers out for 3 minutes we’ll make sure your conscience goes away happy for the whole of the cricket season & you can enjoy the full glory of the tournament with a nourished soul.
Just send us an email or reply to this one saying you’d like us to pick you a random team & we’ll do a lucky dip selection.
All you have to do is pick your team names & decide whether to get your tenners to Dean at the Plough or bring them to nets next Tuesday or make a bank transfer; send us these details & the rest is done for you.
And if you have a favourite cricketing cowboy or there are any other cricketing cowboys you know you want to have in your otherwise random teams, just mention them in the email. So long as you don’t go over the top & pick more than 5 of them, we’ll make sure they all feature for you.
Need any more information? It’s all here: eastoncowboys.org.uk/fantasy-cricket
Tournament Gazette No2
UPDATE (16 April 12)
What the f**k? We are hosting ‘The Alternative World Cup’ in celebration of our 20th anniversary of Cowness. It will be in Berrow, Somerset Thurs 23 – Mon 27 August.
There will be mens & womens football, cricket and netball played by teams from the U.K. Europe and South America.
We need loads of volunteers to help put on a tournament of this size.
HELP!! We urgently need people to join the catering sub-group – to help with planning food at the event – contact Angelo.
Contacts for joining the other groups are (email addresses have been removed to stop excess spamming, if you do not have the contact details of these people use the ‘contact us’ form on this webiste and your message will be forwarded ):
| Ents: Tash | Site: Scottie |
| Bar: Tim | Catering: Angelo |
| Kids’s: Paul | Fundraising: Jack |
Fundraising Events coming up…….
| Ongoing | Football scratchcards – behind the bar in the Plough |
| Thur 26th April | Start of Fantasy Cricket season £10 to enterNOW POSSIBLE to enter & request a random draw eastoncowboys.org.uk/fantasy-cricket |
| Sat 28th April | ‘Bring (Brean!) the Heat’ party at Easton Community Centrefull club fundraiser £5 advance tickets/£7 on door. – need help on night – door (speak to Dik), with décor (Jo ), & crew (kurlypaul) |
| Sun 6th May | Netball Fundraiser – enter a mixed team to play |
| Sat 9th June | 5 a side football tournament at ECC 50s v 40s 30s 20s fancy dress all welcome also want to run a few kids games + other surprises. |
| July | pub Olympics organised by Cowgirls football – date tbc |
NEXT TOURNAMENT MEETING – MON 14TH MAY – 7.30 – HAWKS
We still need a theme for the tournament suggestions to Peace.
Other dates: Football AGM hawks gym 21st May at 7.00
Full club BGM Mon 30th April at 7.00 (Hawks Gym)
Full Club BGM
This is the a meeting of the whole club. Please can as many people as possible get there and we need at least two people from each section of the club.
Once Upon A Time In The West Country
The Yard’s 3rd annual football tournament weekend.
Men’s Football AGM
As well as the main AGM there will be a pre-AGM for all the managers in The Plough on 28th April at 5:00pm.
As Winter Ends, Summer Begins
16/04/2012
The Suburbans thumped bottom of the league St Aldhelms Res 10-1. They currently lie in second place, 12 points behind Stoke Gifford, but with two in hand next week’s top of the table clash is a big match.
Downs B lost to Clifton St Vincents 1-2.
Downs A had no match this week but have a huge one next weekend. GB put it thus on Facebook:
The Downs League season comes to an end next weekend, and the A team have a shot at promotion to Division One. We need at least a point from our game against Sneyd to go up. Sneyd are a bunch of bastards, and it will inevitably be a tough game. There is also still a mathematical possibility of us topping the league – with a big win, and a loss elsewhere for Beachcroft. Whatever happens though, it’s been a cracking season, and it would be great to share our last game with a decent crowd on the sideline: Cheering us on, and heckling the opposition. Kick off is at 2:30 on Saturday 21st. Hopefully see some of you there. Cheers, Gareth.
17/04/2012
The Ultra Casuals drew 2-2 with Filton All Saints
The Cricket Team had their first match losing to Frenchay by 53 runs. If you haven’t already got a fantasy cricket team entered in the fantasy cricket league then you may wish to check out the in depth report, prepared by RT2, on the fantasy league website. According to this Stratto topped the fantasy scores with 100 points. You still have two weeks before the first league games so get a team in for a summer of full on fantasy action.
This summer you can follow the cricket team on Twitter @CowboysCricket
Be Careful Who You Beat
Those Nazis were always bad losers:
Bring Mo’ Heat
THE EASTON COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS are proud to invite you to a night of music, dance and entertainment as part of our 20th year celebrations. All profits from the evening will go towards hosting
the ‘ALTERNATIVE WORLD CUP’ – a men’s, women’s and children’s anti·racist, grass roots amateur football, cricket and netball festival with teams travelling from all over the world to BRISTOL to play this summer.
In honour of the tournaments’ seaside location we’re bringing a bit of the classic british seaside to Easton for the evening with proper ice· cream, a ‘knobbily knee’ competition, deck chairs, beach games, chip cones, late night punch andjudy, gurning beach pic cut outs, coconut shy, donkey rides, beautiful beach bar, sandcastle building and beachballs . so bring your knotted hankies and roll up your trousers for a right proper knee’s up!
Bristols finest musical forces have donated their time and skills for the cowboy cause. massive line up of party vibe reggae, funk, rock’n'roll and hip hop. boom!
Bring the heat! British summertime mash up, an easton cowboys fundraiser:
- (Maff , Ned and freinds from the Egg present) the Egg Tronik(live electronic experiment)
- Jon.E.Vistic(live)
- Babyhead( dj set)
- John Stapleton ( dj set)
- Down Beat Melody
- Sound System ( dj set) riski biznizz ( dj set)
- Awkward & Ben One ( live)
- Andy Scholes( dj set)
- Dub From Atlantis ( dj set)
- Zero One Sound System ( dj set)
- Dj Dukebox (dj set)
- Ossia( dj set)
On the night we will be offering a bottle of Sambuca for the winner of the Knobbily Knee Competition
So don’t be shy and put your best foot forward to be in with a chance!
8 . 2am. SATURDAY 28 APRIL
Easton Community Centre
Kilburn Street, Easton, Bristol, BS5 6AW
£5 advance £7 on door
Advance Tickets email tickets@eastoncowboys.org.uk
or your local friendly cowboy or cowgirl ..
Tournament Gazette March
Location
The tournament is being held in Berrow, Somerset Friday 24th – Mon 27th August 2012. There will be football (mens and womens), cricket and netball.
Theme
We need a theme – suggestions please! Send any suggestions to Peace by 7th April.
Merchandising & Design
We’ve got 2 designs of pre-tournament T-shirts (£12 each) and a Cowboys / Cowgirls mug (£6) to sell before the tournament at all the fundraising events – bring your dosh!
We need designs for the tournament T-shirt to be sold only at the tournament – Please send any designs by 1st July 2012 – 2 winning designs will be printed – 1 kids tournament T-shirt and 1 adult T-shirt!! Send designs to Emma
Planning it
We have formed some committees to arrange different aspects of the tournament. More help is needed and appreciated….. To join speak to the person highlighted or email the address in brackets at the end of the group
Ents: Kim, Tash, Brendan, Sue, Paul M, Tom
Bar: Tim, Angelo, Dik, Bridget
Children’s: Cackk –
Site: Dik, Jody, Jack, Scottie, Phil, Danny, Malcolm, Marcus, Kim
Catering/food: Angelo, Mandie, Jack, Emma, Ru
Fundraising: Angelo, Annie, Martin, Jack, Emma, Ru , Zoe
We need to fundraise as much as possible before the tournament. Some events coming up are:
Thursday 5th April – Cowgirls ‘Camping it up’ Quiz
Sat 21st April, 8:00-whenever, End Of Season Party, Kings Square Art Space,
Saturday 28th April – ‘Bring (Brean!) the Heat’ party at Easton Community Centre
Sunday 6th May – Netball Fundraiser – enter a mixed team to play
Nigel – over 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s tournament – tbc
Cacck – 23rd June weekend away – possible fundraiser?
End of season Awards (end May / beg June) – poss to fundraise
July – pub Olypmics – tbc
We need some teams to take on the End of Seasons Awards night as a fundraiser and also a pub Olympics in July…At the moment Netball and Cricket have arranged some fundraising – we need the Football teams to do the same. Remember each team has a fundraising target of £500.
NEXT TOURNAMENT MEETING – MONDAY 16TH APRIL – 7.30 – HAWKS
Please come along to give us a hand.
