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Final Tour Results
Saturday 23 May
Fantaticos 3 – 0 Easton Cowboys
(only one half played cos our driver couldn´t find where the pitch was)
Tuesday 26 May
Easton Cowboys 1 – 0 Red Machine
It Should Have Rained
21/05/2009
The Cowgirls lost to Calloway Ladies 11-5
The Cricket Cup Team lost to Weston Super Mare 3rds in the Butcombe Cup. It is always the way in the cup, you draw a team that are several divisions above you and then get roundly defeated in front of a UKIP meeting that is taking place in the opposition’s club house. They got off to a good start with a great brute of a man hitting boundaries with ease but after a few quick wickets they were pinned back to 128 in their 20 overs. The Cowboys never quite got going with the bat and in the face of some very accurate bowling limped to 80 odd in their 20 overs.
23/05/2009
The Easton Cowboys 3rd Team lost to Brislington 4th Team by 26 runs. The glorious 3rds were not so glorious and lost a match they should have won quite comfortably. Only one of the opposition batsmen got into double figures and he got 108 having been dropped when he was on about 10. The extras were the second highest scorer with 34 out of Brislington’s 181. Garner bowled 8-0-26-3 and Gary bowled 8-0-23-1. Dave Flinton kept wicket manfully taking a great catch to dismiss one of the openers. The Cowboys managed to keep up with the required run rate for quite a while but kept losing wickets, the extras top scored with 38 beating Ev by 1 run. 3 players scored 13 and Rob was unlucky to get out on the 7th ball of an over (the umpire had miscounted). Otam was so displeased by this defeat that he has threatened to remove chip privileges.
24/05/2009
The Cricket 1st Team lost to Grendel by 8 wickets. The Cowboy’s batted 1st and got 80 all out in 19 overs with Justine getting 28 and the extras getting 22. Grendel knocked the runs off in 19 overs for the loss of 2 wickets. Chris bowled 7-2-12-1.
The Cricket 2nd Team lost to Portways by 8 wickets. The Cowboys hit 124 all out of 36.3 overs with Boults hitting 26 and Aran hitting 37. Portways got the runs in 14 overs.
Stuttgart Flights
If you are planning to go to Stuttgart this summer Dik reports that there are some cheap flights to be had here.
The Boys In Brasil
Will has sent in some tour results:
A joint Cowboys-Autonomos team lost 4-8 to Los Hermanos De Pele under dimly-lit floodlights on Monday.
On the Copa
Copacabana
The hottest spot south of Havana
Football and passion were always the fashion
On the Copa
The Cowboys won
(4-1 against the Rio Punx in a beach football match)
Punky’s report goes something like this:
well easton cowboys/girls made the pilgrimage to the maracana to see brasiliann cup quarter finals 2nd leg – fluminese v corinthians – we were in the away end in crowd of approx 65000. awesome atmosphere and great result for corinthians although ronaldo was shit.
preceding this was 2 great victories for cowboys on the copacabana – firstly beating rio punx 4-1 , and then beating a corinthians supporters group , i cannot recollect score but shall update you .
contact has been made with another team for future trips , red machine i believe. everyone played well – jock described as a warrior! more friendships made and all round top trip to rio ( and we survived the journey there and back with the driver who had some odd driving techniques to say the least)
day off today then on saturday there is a game against los fanaticos.
see you all soon next week when i shall bore and regale you with many tales.
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Hillsborough
Bristol Radical History Group have added mp3 files from their recent Hillsborough: What Really Happened? event to their website. Listen to Sheila Coleman (Hillsborough Justice Campaign), Daniel Bennett (eyewitness) and David Goldblatt (football author) talk about what happened at Hillsborough on 15th April 1989 and the subsequent attempt to cover up the actions of the police.
More Result Type Stuff
End Of Season Stats:
Netball 1 finished 2nd out of 10 in Division 8 of the Avon Netball Association League and are promote to Division 7. Played 18, won 16, drew 1, lost 2, for 659, against 458, points 79.
Netball 2 finished 10th out of 10 in Division 10 of the Avon Netball Association League. Played 18, won 1, drew 0, lost 17, for 228, against 558, points 6.
Saturday A Team finished 10th of 14 in the Bristol Downs League 1st Division. Played 26, won 8, drew 12, for 34, against 38, points 30.
Saturday B Team finished 1st out of 13 in the Bristol Downs League 3rd Division. Played 24, won 17, drew 3, lost 4, for 66, against 26, points 54.
Sunday Team finished 1st of 11 in the Bristol & District Sunday League 1st Division and are promoted to Premier Division. Played 20, won 17, drew 0, lost 3, for 87, against 24, points 51.
The Old Men finished 1st out of 13 in the 2nd Division of the Bristol Casuals League and are promoted to Division 1. Played 12, won 10, drew 2, lost 0, for 48, against 13, points 22.
More Results:
Tour news – the Cowboys have lost their first game against Autonomos 2-4 but the young’uns plus Jess and Phil came second in a punk 5-a-side tournament.
The Ultra Casuals have been playing friendlies and winning them without telling anybody. They won the last one against Bristol Hopefools 2-0.
A Cowboys team reached the quater finals of the Copa Sandino on Sunday.
Below is a picture of a beautiful double rainbow over Keynsham that was taken as the Glorious 3rds beat the youth of that borough.
Catches Win Matches
14/05/2009
The Cowgirls lost to The Beer Factory 1-20.
16/05/2009
The Glorious Thirds won their second game of the season beating Keynsham 3rd Team by 5 Wickets in 32.1 overs. On a very wet, windy day we won the toss and decided to bowl. They say that catches win matches and so it was proved. Dunc took a stunning catch on the boundry before taking two more gooduns, Gary took a great low catch square of the wicket, The Webgimp took a high one that stayed in the air swirling in the wind for 3 hours and Grech caught one behind the stumps. And if all this amazing catching was not enough there were run outs as well, Garner threw down the stumps from about 3 miles away and Jeff palmed a throw into the stumps for a second run out. Keynsham all out for 128 in 38.4 overs with Gary bowling 6.4- 1-16-4 and Garner bowling 8-1-18-2. The Cowboys got the runs in difficult wet conditions with Ev getting 35 and Gary getting 56.
17/05/2009
Both cricket games were rained off.
Blood And Guts In Wrington
07/05/2009
The Cowgirls lost to Woodstock Jollies 4-9.
09/05/2009
Netball1 beat Skybound2 by 51-29 and so finish second in Division 8 and are promoted for the third season on the run.
Netball2 lost to Mangotsfield5 7-23.
The Cricket 3rd Team lost to Wrington 2nd Team by 60 runs. On a horrible dry and crumbly pitch Stevo won the toss and put Wrintgon in to bat and they scored 181 for 7 and Gary took 2 wickets for 12 runs off his 8 overs. DC II got smacked in the chops by the ball while standing at square leg and despite needing 5 stitches he still wouldn’t shut up. The Cowboys got 121 for 9 off 38.4 with DC II being declared unfit for purpose despite his willingness to bat. After a great start form our manly opening pair, Stevo hit 27, the middle order collapsed amidst uneven bounce before Gretch pivoted on his back heal like Grandpa Kelly to hit 34 not out.
10/05/2009
The Sunday Team lost to PJ Services 2-3 but are still promoted and are still Division 1 Champions.
The Cricket 1st Team had a ding dong battle with Barrow Gurney 2nd Team but lost by 5 wickets. The Cowboys batted 1st hitting 193 for 6 off their 40 overs. Captain Chris hit 71 and Maverik hit 55 not out. Barrow Gurney got the runs in 36.5 overs. Kalu bowled 6 overs for 28 taking 2 wickets.
The 2nd Team had the weekend off.
Tournament Invite
We have been sent the following tournament invite:
COPA LUCRECIA LINDO 2009
WOMEN’S FUTBOL FOR NICARAGUA
Hola Companeras y amigas de futbol
Bristol Link with Nicaragua is organising a women’s five-a-side footballl tournament to raise some funds for a women’s Project in Puerto Morazan, Bristol’s twin town in Nicaragua, Central America.
The tournament is named after Nicaraguan heroine and revolutionary martyr Lucrecia Lindo whose name is taken by many women’s projects, co-operatives and campaigns in present day Nicaragua. BLINC has supported the Lucrecia Lindo women’s shrimp farming co-operative since it started in 1986.
The Copa Lucrecia Lindo will take place on SUNDAY 14th JUNE 2009 at Windmill Hill City Farm, Phillip St, Bedminster (opposite ASDA). The five a side pitch is permaprene so you will need trainers and a minimum of five players but in our experience a squad of seven is best. We are hoping to have ten teams with one group of five in the morning and one in the afternoon. The top two from each group will go through to semis. The farm café will be open all day for food and drinks and changing rooms/showers are available. The City Farm has kindly agreed to give us the pitch for free to support our project. A big muchas gracias to them.
BLINC will provide a trophy, referees, balls and bibs although please try and ensure your team all wear the same colour shirts. Copa Lucrecia Lindo rules will be sent out along with sponsor forms and other details once you have booked a place. We are asking each player to raise £10 with a minimum of £50 per team.
If you would like to enter a team in this year’s Copa Lucrecia Lindo, please send your team’s name, contact details and a £50 deposit cheque made out to “BLINC” to
A.Hughes
BITA
HLSS (St Matthias)
Bristol BS16 2JP
For further information e: alix.hughes@uwe.ac.uk or tel 0117 3284450 (daytime)
Many thanks
En solidaridad
Alix Hughes
pp BLINC executive
Wayne Finds New Uses For Deodoarant
Punky reports from South America:
Down in Argentina will Wayne make it back?
Is he suffering from caoti fever after being scratched by one?
Will he try to eat more cellophane?
Will he spray deodoarant on his legs thinking it is deet antimozzie or spray more deodorant in his mouth? ( tight bugger never brought toothpaste i suppose!)