Uganda Rugby : UTL Kobs ditch Wafula for Kasasa

This was coming save for many being either too absent-minded or thinking UTL Kobs will do nothing to arrest their recent slide.

On Friday evening, Uganda's most successful rugby club confirmed the appointment of Yayiro Musisi Kasasa as head coach to replace Herbert Wafula.

Kasasa, who was replaced as Rugby Cranes coach earlier this year by Kenyan Ham Onsando (who incidentally was fired a few weeks ago), will take charge with immediate effect as the 10-time league champions seek to turn the corner starting with the Uganda Cup.

"Herbert's appointment was up to the end of the league so when Yayiro became available we decided to make use of him," Arthur Mugweri, Kobs general secretary, explained to Sunday Monitor.

Adding; "this is not an indictment on his (Herbert) performance. He did very well coaching a young side and managing to get victories over every other side although overall, the points tally was not good."

Since their last crown in 2008, the Kampala RFC-based side has sunk to abysmal levels, finishing outside the top two for the last seasons of Uganda Rugby.

Noticing the slump, ex-Rugby Cranes and Makerere University Impis captain Wafula was brought towards the end of last year after Geoffrey Mabonga was relieved of his duties.

Repeated efforts to reach Kasasa, also a former Kobs and Rugby Cranes winger, proved futile but Mugweri thinks they got the right man.

"Kasasa has always been a Kob as long as his other rugby duties allow," he said of the national teams' coordinator and union rugby manager. Kasasa qualified as a coach in New Zealand.

Courtesy- Ismail Kigongo