Drastic Changes in 2010 Rugby Season

The Kenya Rugby Football Union have released the fixtures for the 2010 Rugby Season. A major change in the season structure is the shifting of the Rugby Super Series to after the regular 15-a-side season, something we have long advocated for on this blog. The only drawback is it now falls just before the Safari(con) Sevens. Don't know if one may take the lustre from the other or not. The other major change is the creation of a window for international matches, another long fought for change. A key change in the season structure is the removal of the home and away format for the first division Kenya Cup league and the inclusion of semi finals and a final match. This I presume is to reduce the time the league will take in order to squeeze it into the required time frame.

Ominously absent completely from the fixtures is the oldest rugby tournament in East Africa, the Enterprise Cup! Strangely enough, this has been slated as a pre/post season tournament for the following season, with the Impala Floodlights getting the prime spot close to the end of the Kenya Cup that I thought would be reserved for the Enterprise Cup. It is easy to see which hands are fiddling with the fixtures.

Suffice to say, some consultation has gone into these fixtures, however, not enough. And the fiddling for partisan purposes is very clear to see and this is what we have always feared.

Excerpt from fixtures below.

DATE	LOCAL FIXTURE
Sat Jan 23rd	Impala Floodlights
Sat Jan 30th	Impala Floodlights
Sat Feb 6th	Impala Floodlights
Thur-Sat 4th-6th Feb
	KENYA CUP LEAGUE
	Impala vs Strathmore
Sat 13 th Feb	KCB vs MeanMachine
	Quins vs Nondies
1st Leg	Nakuru vs Mwamba
Sat 20 th Feb	Meanmachine vs Impala
2nd Leg	Nondies vs KCB
	Quins vs Mwamba
	Nakuru vs strathmore
Sat 27 th Feb	Impala vs Nondies
	KCB vs Mwamba
	Strathmore vs Quins
3 rd Leg	Meanmachine vs Nakuru
Sat 6 th March	Mwamba vs Impala
	Strathmore vs KCB
4th Leg	Quins vs Meanmachine
	Nakuruu vs Nondies
Sat 13 th March	Impala vs Nakuru
5th Leg	KCB vs Quins
	Strathmore vs Mwamba
	Nondies vs Meanmachine
Sat 20 th March	Quins vs Impala
	KCB vs Nakuru
6th Leg	Mwamba vs Meanmachine
	Nondies vs Strathmore
Sat-Sun 20 th-21 st March
Sat 27 th March	Impala vs KCB
	Nakuru vs Quins
	Mwamba vs Nondies
7 th Leg	Meanmachine vs Strathmore
Fri-Sun 26 th-28 th March
Sun 27 th March	BLACKROCK TOURNAMENT
Sat 3 rd -4thApril	GREAT RIFT TENS -ASIDE
Sat 10 th April
	KENYA CUP SEMI FINALS
9 th Leg
Sat 17 th April
	KENYA CUP FINALS
10 th Leg
Sat 24th April	SUPER SERIES WEEK 1
Sat 1 st May	SUPER SERIES WEEK 2
Sat 8th May	SUPER SERIES WEEK 3
Sat 15th May	SUPER SERIES WEEK 4
Sat 22nd May	SUPER SERIES WEEK 5