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Bar Staff Wanted
If you want a free ticket to this event they are looking for bar staff:
Join with fellow punks (young and not so young!) to remember what the ‘77 Jubilee was really all about.
Set in the, usually, peaceful and tranquil surroundings of Bath Racecourse this weekend will be a chance to see all your favourite bands all in one place and you don’t have to worry about getting the last bus home at the end of the night!
As well as some of the best live bands on the circuit (and a few that you don’t get to see very often!) there will be excellent food (not just your usual burger ‘n’ chips), spacious camping grounds, family-friendly facilities, on-site parking, cool bars, market stalls and loads of other entertainment.
We are doing the bars at this event and are looking for volunteers to work two shifts of up to 5 hours in exchange for a weekend ticket with camping. Please get in touch with robin@bigbars.co.uk if you are interested. Cheers.
Netball Mixed Tournament this Sunday!
Calling all players and teams that are entering the Netball Mixed Tournament this Sunday!
Please can you let me (welshberd@yahoo.com) or Binner (lin_heal@yahoo.co.uk) know by Friday 8pm if you are playing, attached is an entry form you can email, or you can call one of us, details on flyer.
If you are an individual rather a team, you can still enter as we’ll have gaps to plug you in!
If its shedding it down, we will prob postpone, so you will need to let me or Lin know the best way to contact you on Sunday morning.
We plan to start as close to midday as poss, games that are held up due to players wandering off will lose points for minutes lost.
There’ll be booze, food, a facepainting professional and nails for the kidz, plus legs and, if you’re really lucky, sweaty scrotum waxing!!
Fancy dress encouraged!
If you are unsure of the game you are welcome to come watch our first team play their last match, tomorrow night (Thurs 3/5/12) at the Grange School in Warmley. It’s against Novers and will be a fierce game. our ‘too’s’ team will be there on hand to explain the rules and stuff. It starts at 7pm, is outdoors (I think) and lasts an hour or so.
Hope to see you Thurs and Sun!!
Dainty
EC Netball
Easton Cowboys & Cowgirls Euro 2012 Predictor
With euro 2012 just around the corner and with this season coming to a close our attention turns to international football, it is time for another fundraiser to help fund our tournament. Its quite simple just predict the score for each of the group games and points will be awarded, the people with the highest score at the end of the group stages wins the money.
RULES: Just predict the scores for all the group games and then points will be awarded for the closeness of your prediction will get you a score, points for correct scores and correct results.
The scores will be added to a spreadsheet and all the scores will be totted up and there will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd . This will just run for the group games (24 Games)
- Points for Correct Goals per team 3 Points
- Points for Correct Result 2 Points
- Points for Group Rank Position 5 Points (Group positions will be decided by the results that are entered)
This means that there are a total of 8 points available per game, 3 points for getting each score right and two points for getting the right results. All predictions that are entered are put into a spreadsheet that will work out the finishing positions in each group based on predictions, if you guess the correct finishing positions in the group you will be awarded 5 points that means there are an extra 20 points (5 per team) available for each group.
Hope this makes sense to everybody any questions email Scott (scotthomas78@hotmail.com) please.
All entries and money are to be paid by 23:59 Thursday 7th June any late entries will be entered but scoring begins from the date of entry. Just fill in form above and email it back to me (scotthomas78@hotmail.com) mark them Euro’12 Predictions and get them to me before the closing date. Money will be collected by me.
Entry will be £5 and the more that enter the higher the prize and more money for the tournament funds.
Prizes will be as follow:
1st = 35% of takings
2nd = 10% of takings
3rd = 5% of takings.
Rain
There was no cricket this weekend however, there was a little netball. It went thus:
The 6’s had a close game with Doves but narrowly lost by 4 goals. 31-35. Vernie got voted player of the match by them and Mare, jopey and Vernie got it from us x
Of course it was not sport that was occupying people’s minds this weekend. Well done to everybody that made Bring The Heat such a storming night.
Sad Tweet
This was dispached by Twitter from the scene of the tragedy:
Suburbans lose their big game vs Severn Beach 1-0. Fantastic goal to be fair. Should have had a pen though ref…
More Stire Magazine
The latest edition of Stir Magazine has appeared, this time with a piece by Will on the Cowboys. The rest of the blurb goes thus:
The fifth issue features an interview about the Transition Network with ROB HOPKINS; an account of the criminalisation of Food Not Bombs by cofounder KEITH McHENRY, a look at the creative protests of Craftivism Wellington by LIZZY WILLMINGTON; an exploration of how sports teams can build communities around political ideas by WILL SIMPSON, member of THE EASTON COWBOYS; an article on the failure of centralised file sharing systems by FRANCO IACOMELLA; an interview about the The Common Ground Collective in New Orleans with cofounder SCOTT CROW; a map reading of the future of radical publishing by ANNE BEECH; a history of money and other ways of monetising our wealth by The New Economics Foundation’s DAVID BOYLE; a review of the new Transition 2.0 film showing communities printing their own money and growing food by CHARLOTTE DU CANN; a blog from activist IAN WESTMORELAND from TRANSITION HEATHROW about generating their own energy; a blog from PATRICK CHALMERS on why we can be the answer to the mainstream media; and the launch of the online radio show RADIO FREE EVERYBODY and a Q&A with MAT CALLAHAN.
One Up
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 eastoncowfolk.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: eastoncowfolk.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 eastoncowfolk.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.