World Footy News

The Cergy-Pontoise Coyotes have got their season of to a fantastic start, winning the opening match of the new Football Australien (CNFA) season for 2015/16. Up against last year’s premiers and most dominant team, the Coyotes left nothing in the tank and showed no regard for past reputations by downing their cross-town Paris rivals.

The final score saw the Cergy-Pontoise Coyotes 111 defeat the Paris Cockerels 82.

With the Paris Cockerels having spawned a new team, the Paris Cockatoos, over the off season it is likely that the Paris team may have been missing a player or two compared to last season, but that means little as the Coyotes, but their own admission, were “in the face” of their opponents from the outset and determined to fight. Certainly, the Coyotes took full advantage of playing on home soil to ground out their 29 point win.

The remaining matches scheduled for Round One will be played next weekend with the Perpignan Tigers hosting the Firesharks Montpellier in a southern fixture whilst the Toulouse Hawks will host Lyon-based club the ALFA Lions, hoping to build on their encouraging performances at the Coupe De France last month.

The other round one match between the Bordeaux Bombers and the Strasbourg Kangourous has been rescheduled to be played after the winter break in February. Rounds One to Four will be played in 2015 priot to the break, reconvening in February to complete the remaining five rounds before a June finals series culminating in a Grand Final on 25th June.