The year ahead...

Welcome back to all the Cobras after what has been one seriously long holiday. Hope you pushed it in true Cobras style one way or another, whether it was at Ox-braai or up the coast with the Family. I certainly know Gimli Steen did, as it was made obvious that he was having a good time at Ox-braai by running around screeming "I pull tall chicks" in the early hours of the morning, we don't think he even knew what he was doing. This man has been bouncing between ladies over the summer season, which has been dubbed "The Summer of Love" by many, including Raubs who was last seen on the bowling greens of WPCC with a blonde las, who knows? However the same can't be said about Dillon X, who is now officially Dillon Ex, thank god.

As the year has started, so has the Cobras Bowls team. After two outings to the Greens, the Cobras have out done themselves with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. This is a remarkable improvement on last years season. With another two thursday sessions to go, the Cobras look set to hopefully get their hands on some sort of award, especially with the return of strike bowler Graeme Steen from China. Its an awesome vibe, come on down to WPCC on Ave. De Mist on Thursday evenings 6pm, put your golf shirt/jersey or whatever on and come have a few beers, its an awesome prematch for tiger.

This year looks set to be an awesome one, as we are still fresh out of school and only our 3rd year of internal league rugby, one maybe feels 3rd time lucky? The new laws in the league can only play into our hands with 75% of the team have to be registered UCT students and the rest must be members of the UCTRFC and under the age of 25. We obviously will not encounter any selection issues over this as I our whole side is basically UCT students and under the age of about 22, so with this is mind it is going to be beneficial to us, as nothing will have to change in our setup.

Touch has been going strong with record numbers of guys coming down every Sunday, its awesome to see how amped guys are so early in the season, we want to see who the commited guys are so get down to touch EVERY SUNDAY @ BISHOPS 5 O'CLOCK SHARP! The league is just under two months away so we have to start getting those fitness levels up.

A few notices for the year to keep in mind:

- Seven's Tournament this (Saturday 23rd of Feb) @ Villagers RFC. Meet at 1 o'clock on the B-field, bring new and old Cobras jerseys, we need at least 20 guys there so please come down, all welcome. TOUCH ON SUNDAY IS STILL ON AT BISHOPS.

- Pre-season friendlies, possibly against Shebeen Boys and Wilgenhof (Stellenbosch) 1st or 2nd team in Stellies on a Wed night, TBC.

- Nadoes/Cobras tour to Plett June/July holidays. Weekend of Knysna Marathon with huge jol at Crabs Creek.

- End of season Cobras Formal dinner, we all know going by the last one that this is an event not to be missed.

- Finally to win the league...

This is basically what is on the Cobras Calendar for 2008, so keep those in mind and we'll keep you up to date with these events. Please commit yourself to events and don't make us chase you around, cos if you do we dont need you, seriously.

If you have not told me that you want a Cobras Rugby jacket yet, you better do so in the next 35 or so hours otherwise its your loss, we have got them at a big discount, but ill keep you posted on costs.

So thats it for now, please keep checking this site as not everyone is on Facebook, and if you havent joined the Purple Cobras RFC group on facebook please do so immediately. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2232462638

So Saturday it is, meet at Villagers no later than 13:00 please, let me know if you have any problems. 0839502053.

To the year that is 2008, let's bring it home...

Oh so brave.