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If the Cowfolk are doing it, this is where it’s at…
Blue In Brasil
Here is a video from Blue of Republica:
Fantasy Cricket
As a fundraiser for the 2012 Easton Cowboys Tournament this year the cricket club is running a Fantasy Cricket League.
Just select 11 Cowboys cricketers to score points for your fantasy team according to their batting, bowling, fielding & overall league performances over the 2012 cricket season.
The Cowboys cricketers have been organised into a player pool which gives them a fantasy value between £3 Billion & £15 Billion & classifies them as Batsmen, All Rounders, Wicket Keepers or Bowlers. Each team has a budget of £100 Billion to spend on their 11 fantasy cricketers, & must include at least 2 Batsmen, at least 1 Wicket Keeper, at least 2 Bowlers & no more than 5 All Rounders. One of the players in each team must be nominated as the captain, who will score points at double the rate. Each team may change captain monthly & has the opportunity to make 3 transfers over the season, so the game stays interactive throughout the summer.
Each team entered into the league costs only £10, & from the combined subscriptions 50% will be dedicated directly to the 2012 Tournament; the remaining 50% is the prize pot, funding prizes for the 3 highest scoring fantasy teams: 35% for 1st, 10% for 2nd & 5% for 3rd.
There is no limit to the number of different teams anyone can enter & obviously, the more entries, the greater the rewards all round, so don’t hold back, spread the word & get everyone who you can imagine might care involved!
Although, there is no entry deadline, cricketers will begin to score points from the first league game of the season & continue until the last, so, to have a chance of scoring from the start of the season, team submissions must be received with payment confirmed no later than Thursday 26th April 2012. Any team entered before this date may be changed at will without penalty until then, so there is no reason not to enter a team as soon as you’ve picked it.
For all communications relating to the Cowboys Fantasy Cricket League, including Team Submissions, Captaincy Changes & Transfers, plus to provide any information relating to player availability or status, email: fantasycowboys@gmail.com or talk to Dean in The Plough.
Winning, Losing And Unknown Results
25/02/2012
Netball report thus:
The 6’s beat TJ’s 32 -23 in the sunshine with Mare getting player from them and Lou and Vern from us.
The Too’s lost to Olveston with a very admiral score for being a player down 16-28. Carly got player from them and Rachel from us.
Well done everybody xx
Downs A beat Cotswool 2-6 and Downs beat Sneyd Park A 3-4.
26/02/2012
The Sundays lost. The league website says that there was an away win awarded to Lebeqs but does not say why.
If the Old Men played they have not communicated their results. They are all so old that they panic at the very site of an abacus. Although apparently PC has just got a smart phone. If he gets a smart brain he might even be able to use it.
Photo Face
For those of you that don’t indulge in facebook, here are some photos from Argentina ripped from that site.
Next Tournament Meeting
Now we have a venue it is time to get the peddle to the metal and start sorting things out.
It’s All Spanish To Me
This was posted by Zoe on facebook:
Link to footage taken at the Copa America Tournament – some video of a talk by Gabriel Marques, from the Players of the Left, introducing his book of articles by fans discussing the politics and economics of football in Brazil.
I have posted a google translation of the article below.
p.s. If you watch to the end there is a rousing singsong – with a few familiar faces jumping around!
(translation)
On January 29, 2012, in Colonia Caroya, a city that belongs to the Province of Cordoba, Argentina, was the international launch of the book “Botafogo, a Trivial Beyond Passion” as part of the programming I Copa America Soccer Alternative . The author and team member Pelada Left Gabriel Marques made a brief explanation on “portunhol” after the participants from various parts of the world, sing the anthem of the Botafogo Football and Races.
Below is the text that will come out in the Digital Magazine about the event, in Portuguese and Spanish.
MY BOOK OF THE COOKER is a partnership between the Publisher and Books Unlimited Football and Regatas Botafogo, a revolutionary design that aims to publish books written by fans. During 2010, several texts were published after the Glorious games in addition to Trivial blog, which formed the collection that makes up the first book published by the project: “Botafogo, a Passion Beyond the Trivial”, title winner of the poll promoted on the blog itself. The book contains thirty essays, not only analyze the issues and tactics of the game, but also relate the history of the club and initiatives, the role of passion for football fans and the general themes of the Company, such as culture, education, politics and economics .
By using a relaxed language, the book is one of the critical objectives necessary to accomplish the absurd situations that have occurred mainly in Brazil using football as a backdrop. Headquarters of several mega sports stadiums are built with public funds and millionaires then transferred to the private profit crunch occurs while historically achieved wages and rights are taken from the workers, families are violently and forcibly removed from their communities to work to reorganize the urban happen and enrich contractors, facilities pubic transport are increasingly precarious, the schedules are subject to the interests of television, encouraging individualistic logic of each watch games at home, the ticket prices are high etc.. All these conditions make it difficult for the fans to the games. Meanwhile, the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) Ricardo Teixeira, for many years dictating the direction of soccer in Brazil, continues its undemocratic actions, even with several corruption charges. It is worth noting that in 2010 created the National Association of Supporters and cheerleaders (ANT), which has carried out actions to combat the gentrification of Brazilian soccer, building up a petition to the dictator of CBF is investigated and advocating the democratization of Football .
In view of the author of “Botafogo, a Passion Beyond the Trivial,” as a physical education teacher and member of the ANT, Football, as a social phenomenon, can and should contribute to the formation of a youth critical reader and passionate. The Glorious Botafogo, club history and reference scenarios in Brazil and worldwide, has an important leadership role in this task to encourage links between the literature and this sports known and practiced worldwide. After several launch activities and dissemination in radio programs and events in Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, and Brasilia, occurred on January 29, 2012 the international launch of the book, in Colonia Caroya in the district of Córdoba -ARG, during the First Alternative Copa America Cup.
The opportunity to experience as a player and I play a CAA Football to others for marketing and competitivistas meet the views expressed by the author about sports. The author has the wish that the contents of the book presents Beyond the Trivial discussions and our daily actions point to the prospect of building a new human being, in addition to a Society for the Capital. Hasta la victoria siempre
Berrow It Is Then!
Last night, in a beauty contest between three sites, Berrow had a late surge and was awarded the honor of hosting the 2012 Easton Cowboys & Cowgirls tournament. This will be help on August Bank Holiday Weekend (weekend of the 25th August).
Somerset TA8, UK
Some Good, Some Bad
18/02/2012
Downs A beat Tebby 6-0 and Downs B beat Retainers B 4-1.
19/02/2012
The Sundays GFA Cup run came to an end when they were beaten by Sportsman 2-5
Still Cold
Frozen pitches did for the footballers again this weekend.
Don’t forget the Sundays are through to the semi-finals of the GFA Cup. The semi-final will be against Sportsman and will be played at BAWA on Sunday (19th). The other semi has already been played so that if they will play Beaufort to retain the cup.