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...

We have finally come to the end of a long and admittedly very painful season and rather than describe again how Machine stared down the barrel and got disembowelled in the Zain Enterprise Cup quarters by Nondies, it’s time for the inaugural Mean Machine online awards. The season has been a roller coaster ride but the particular amusement park that Machine chose this season had a sharp and short ...

Don’t let the dismal showing fool you, Mean Machine has played some champagne rugby at discrete intervals this year and some sparkling individual efforts have been witnessed. The issue of what goes wrong is for another fora but here is the pick of 2008. Mwiti Joel Kobia- the rotund front rower has proved that his utility goes beyond just being a prop and has steadied the ship in the absence...

Date: Saturday, 19th April, 2008 Venue: Impala RFC, Ngong Road Final Score: Mean Machine 12 – 18 Impala After blue washing Mwamba in the season opener the blue shirts had lined up Impala for a fall on a sunny afternoon at Ngong Road. Following a superb showing by the forwards at training, morale was high but this should have sounded warning bells to those who knew Machine well. The squad was...

Date: Saturday, 12th April, 2008 Venue: Railway Club, Uhuru Park, Nairobi Final Score: Machine 25 – 15 Mwamba Kenya cup debutant Meshack Wesonga woke Machine up just in time to prevent a dream start to the 2008 season from turning into a nightmare. New coach Michael Otieno must have breathed a huge sigh of relief as Wesonga’s stoppage time penalty put Mwamba out of their misery after...