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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@eastoncowfolk.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.
After The Summer Comes Winter
31/03/201
Downs A beat Clifton St Vincents 2-3 with a last minute penalty. They are in second place in the league, wrestling manfully with promotion. On the 21st April they have a huge match against Sneyd Park Res.
Downs B lost to Green Park Rangers 0-4. I am sure it was a manful 0-4… if there is such a thing.
The Netball 1s apparently received a heavy spanking but have not reported it on their facebook page. In the words of the well known song – “I has all gone quite over there”. I am not sure how manful this defeat was, and lessons hard learnt will prevent me from speculating.
01/04/2012
After their first ever victory last week the Ultras lost to Portishead Jurassic Sparks 0-7. If you see one of them for god’s sake buy them a pint, put a manly arm around them and say “there, there”.
Remember The Fantasy
Don’t forget to give the Fantasy Cricket League a go.The Backroom Boys have put a lot of effort into this so let’s back them up and enter a team.
It’s easy. Keep it simple.
- Visit https://sites.google.com/site/eastonfantasy/quick-start-guide
- Choose a team name.
- Pay your money.
- You’ve got two weeks to work out what combination of players adds up to £100bn or you can do it straight away
- When you’ve got your players name them.
Don’t forget to check the site where you will find an online form to make it even easier.
There will be regular news and availability updates. Full backup support and information. Free counselling sessions for those who realise that they have picked the wrong skipper.
Remember, more teams, means more money goes to the tournament fund, means more money goes to the prize winners.
If you are struggling to pick a team contact us and we will help you pick one.
More From Argentina
Tash posted this on the facebook page:
Part 2 of Blue’s video blog of our tour to Argentina with Autônomos Futebol Clube and Clubernesto Cheguevara.
Cowgirls Training
Seven til dusk….Cowgirls footie training moves outside! Dust off the insect repellant! The cowgirls last indoor training session will be 4th April at normal time 7.30.
We will NOT BE HAVING TRAINING ON 11th APRIL.
We move outdoors on weds 18th April starting at the earlier time of 7pm – to catch the evening light.
Outdoor training is at Eastville Park on the top pitch (in between the path and the kids play park).
And don’t forget that we have games the first Sun of every month on the pitch behind Easton Community Centre. 10.45 to noon with a roast in the Plough.