Author: Poghie
A rugby fan having fun!
Time For The Oilers To Cook?
This Saturday, the Menengai Oilers will play Kabras Sugar in the 2024/25 Kenya Cup final at the ASK Showgrounds in Kakamega. It will be the Oilers’ second appearance at the Kenya Cup final, after playing in the 2021/22 showdown against the same opponent, going down 31-28 after holding an 18-8 lead at the breather. For […]
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So, Who Is Going Down?
The 2024/25 Kenya Cup regular season is set for a nerve-wracking end, especially for the teams in the bottom half of the table, with the battle to avoid relegation set to go down to the last kick on March 8th.
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My Bold Predictions For 2025
A Happy New Year to you all here’s hoping you and yours have had a great start thus far! The Kenya Rugby Year 2025 looks like one of those slow office days with less action than her predecessors. Being a Women’s World Cup year, some of the events on the calendar have been shelved or […]
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The Kenya Rugby Year 2024…What A Ride!
The year 2024 will go down as one of the better ones for Kenya Rugby in recent history, after a tough run in the last six or so years. From Shujaa getting back to the World Series, playing at the Paris Olympics, Chipu lifting the Barthes Trophy. New, or rather, returning sponsors to the sport…let’s […]
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Shujaa is Back!
When Shujaa take on France in their opening fixture at the Dubai SVNS, it will mark the end of a 559-day journey back to the World Series, since they were relegated in May of 2023, and what a journey it has been! It is something of a dream that we are back to the World […]
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Why Kenya Should Focus On Women’s Rugby!
This past Friday, we were treated to a rare spectacle at the RFUEA grounds, as the Kenya XVs Lionesses steamrolled their Malagasy counterparts, 63-19 in a warm-up test before the latter’s trip to Dubai for their WXV 3 campaign. In many ways, it was a case of what could have been for the Lionesses, who […]
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#ChipuToScotland An Initiative By The Fans, For Chipu…
On Sunday, April 28th 2024, a small group of fans gathered at the Orchid Lounge to watch the Kenya U20 team, the Chipu, play in the 2024 Barthes Cup final in Harare, Zimbabwe against the hosts. Chipu were aiming to become only the second side in Kenya’s history, after the class of 2019, to outrightly […]
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What Kenya Rugby Can Expect In 2024
A happy new year to one and all, here is hoping that you and yours made it to the new year in good shape. If I could summarise my hopes for the Kenya Rugby year 2024 in a word, it would be, recovery. After the pounding that the sport has taken over the last three […]
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Where Are They Now? The Golden Class of 2009.
When Scotland takes on Zimbabwe at the Nyayo National Stadium on the 15th of July 2023 in the first match of the World U20 Junior Trophy, it will mark 14 years since a ball was last kicked at a similar tournament in Nairobi, in May 2009, at the RFUEA grounds, the tournament was then referred […]
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