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Even More Football Meetings
There will be a meeting to decide whether or not to enter a new third team into Bristol Downs League next season. It will be held at The Plough at 5:30pm (ish) on Saturday 21st March.
Cricket Club Meeting
There will be a Cricket Club Meeting in The Plough on Tuesday 31st March 2009 at 6:30pm to discuss training and fundraising.
Iceland Tour
The Justin Campaign, who organised the event in Brighton the other weekend have invited the Cowboys & Cowgirls to join them at the Iceland Express Cup in Reykjavik. The tournament website says:
St. Styrmir is hosting an international gay football tournament over Easter 2009. The tournament will take place in Reykjavik April 9th – 12th, with exciting events and optional excursions taking place outside the city. The tournament is a seven-a-side and will be held indoors on a brand new state of the art AstroTurf in Iceland’s newest sports facility, Kórinn.
More details can be found on the Iceland Express Cup website.
More Gigs
The following information was mailed to the website:
Hello cowboys , it joe from circus to iraq we met at the malcom x centre and london gaza protest we are goin back to plaestine in 2 weeks, we are doin a fundraiser at the plough sat 21st march with some wicked bands and other sillness its 4 quid to get in so would be nice to see ya therexxxxxxxxxxxx
Jack’s Match Report From Brighton
Last weekend a specially selected, highly trained, crack squad of Cowgirls and Boys saddled up and infiltrated the event ‘ The Justin Campaign Football Festival’.
Organised by some of our south coast amigos the Brighton Bandits (played at Collumpton in a fetching pink kit), the campaign/event’s main aim is to raise awareness of homophobia within football and ultimately to ‘…get the football authorities to observe Saturday 2nd May 2009 as Justin Fashanu Day. The long-term aim is to get 2nd May as the annual international day of protest against homophobia in sport’ For more info have look at their website; www.thejustincampaign.com.
So how did we do? We had been training hard for the event, so we decided that we needed to let our hairs down the night …and the morning before kick off. Arriving just in time to register that we were awake, had somehow ended up in the middle of Brighton on a saturday afternoon and we’d missed the 5 a-side tournament. Good job the Cowgirls had flanked us and turned up in time to get a game or two in.
But all was not lost. Bribing the officials with copius amounts of charm and Ben Weaver’s home address we managed to get on the reserve list for the main event. The Table Football Tournament. (more…)
Meetings – Brasil and BGM
There will be a meeting for all those going and interesting in going to Brasil in The Plough at 8pm on Thursday 19th March. If you want to go on this trip then you need to be there.
Also don’t forget the BGM in Hawks Gym on Monday 16th at 7:30pm. There must be representatives from all of the parts of the club present and there must be a minimum of 15 people.
Cricket Update
The Cricket calendar has changed a little bit, here are the updates:
Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th April – Frenchay Ground Force Day, when all good Cricketers go to Frenchay and help get the ground ready for the new season.
Tuesday 14th April – Outdoor nets start at Bristol West Indies.
Saturday 18th April – A friendly against Frenchay.
Saturday 25th April – A friendly against the footballers followed by a fundraiser at The Plough.
Sunday 26th April – The 2nd Teams’ first league match.
Saturday 2nd May – The 3rd Teams’ first league match.
Sunday 3rd May – The 1st Teams’ first league match and also the Geoffrey Oi!Cotts will be performing somewhere in Bristol (venue to be decided).
Monday 4th May – A friendly against the Oi!Cotts’ cricket team, check out their MySpace Page.
Results Ancient And Modern
Some late results:
14/02/2009
Netball 1 beat Bradley Stoke 3 39-34.
Netball 2 lost to Sparks 3 6-31.
28/02/2009
Netball 1 beat Warmley 49-17.
Netball 2 lost to Park 2 15-7.
28/02/2009
The Casuals beat Henleaze Corinthians 3-0.
Some less late results:
05/03/2009
The Cowgirls results are not on the league website yet.
07/03/2009
The Netball results are not on the league website yet.
The Saturday A Team drew 2-2 with Ashley.
The Saturday B Team beat Clifton Rockets 3-2 and are now joint top with Ashley Res who were beaten by4th place Bristol Barcelona Res.
08/03/2009
The Sunday Team lost 1-2 to Lebeq Tavern Res.
The Casuals had a week of to have a lye down and apply some cuprinol to their wooden legs.
Its All Gone A Bit Greek
There will be a fundraising gig to benefit defendants and prisoners from the recent riots in Greece. It is organised by Kelebel and more info about this cause can be found by clicking here.
The lineup includes Victor Menace, Dirty Revolution, Kilnaboy, Belladonna, No World Borders and Dub Revolution. There will also be stalls, snacks, stuff and ‘ting.
Viva La Resistance – Saturday 28th March, 8pm-2am (1st band on at 8:30pm) at The Island a.k.a Bridewell Island on Silver Street. Tickets are £7 in advance from Bristol Ticket Shop and Kebele Cafes.
Cricket And Brighton
Cricket
Outdoor nets will start on Tuesday 14th April 2009 at Bristol West Indies.
There will be a friendly against Frenchay on Saturday 18th April and one against the footballers on 25th April. There will also be a kit fundraiser at The Plough after the Frenchay match.
Brighton
The Cowgirls are entering a team into the Justin Campaign tournament in Brighton on Saturday 7th March. If you would like to go along they are offering lifts. Contact Bridget if you are interested. Sideshow Bob and Jack might also represent us in the table football at the same event.