The circus always comes to town whenever Machine visit Mwamba and it wasn’t any different this weekend when a crazy see saw Kenya Cup tie ended with a nail-biting rectum-tensing 29-28 scoreline in favor of the “Mother” team. From a neutralist perspective, it was an open, flowing and exciting game but in real rugby terms it was like two halves of an attack-defence Thursday training sessio...

Wanyore come unstuck in late charge by Machine It was an evening of high drama, deja vu, a dream conclusion for Machine and a nightmare of an end for Nakuru. The 15-7 scoreline barely tells the story of the pulsating round three Kenya Cup clash between Machine and Nakuru at the University grounds which saw the home team bag its first victory of the league. The only blemish to this otherwise charge...

Deja Vu Mean Machine almost managed to put behind a 54-16 drubbing at the Lion’s den but incredibly folded to Impala in the dying minutes for the second time in a month to lose 15-21 at the University of Nairobi Sports ground on Saturday. It was a surreal rerun of the Impala Floodlit as Impala took an early lead and hung on to it precariously while Fidel Sinei chipped away at it and with ten...

photos by Mentalacrobatics and Harvest Tone This past weekend, we finally witnessed the first Mean Machine Kenya Cup game win of the season. I thought we had lost the will to fight and win. But after watching this game against Nakuru, I realised that it was always there and perhaps just needed to be channelled. Thanks to Benja and the rest of the technical team, the boys finally proved that weR...

Well the 2009 fifteens season has been done and dusted and no, the Kenya Cup trophy has not yet come home. In fact, for long spells of the season, the trophy seemed to drift further and further away into the horizon. But it has not all been bleak. The much dreaded molting process finally got underway in earnest under the watchful eye of returnee coach Sevens maverick Benjamin Ayimba. There were so...

JC I was born again in 1984 in my own room through personal conviction of my own singleness and God’s gracious kindness and patience with me. Knowing that sooner or later I was going to die, I found rest or peace in my heart concerning the condition in which I was to meet him. Since I also did not know what the future held for me, whether joy or sorrow, I urgently sought to be reconciled to the ...

Give me my machine gun Let me fight the war Don’t waste my time now It’s a perfect time to score A perfect time to hear those engines roar. Give me my machine gun Feel my passion burn When will you learn?? There’s a war out there, Still debating if you should load your gun? Are you for real son? I’m ready No need to call steady. Let’s go. There is a name to defend History to amend League...

How the years fly past. Just the other day ’92, I was a fresher during the 15th anniversary; now it’s already the 20th, all unbelievable. As captain, 1992-93 I took over a Machine in a state of flux, enough of the older players had already hung up their boots and a big number of the present were demoralized. This was quite understandable coming out of a bleak two years, 1991-1992, when...

Machine guys and the girls have always been a very touchy issue. We only talked about them, and that’s where it ended. Apart of course from a few “clandos” that some guys shared. We were always “the rough guys”. Ask Boni, Evan, Shebesh, Yakas, Sabwa, Bundux or even Bwaab, Rombo and Chiro. Most of these guys especially Joe, Bonnie, Olimba and Wawira have improved since col...

A newspaper article in the 90′s suggested that the culprits pictured below were former University of Nairobi students playing for Barclays Bank. The article went on to question how exactly these culprits would fit into the Barclays team, which suggests to this reporter that perhaps the true identity of these ruffians was suspect even then. Violation: Mean Machine players purporting to play...