Canada Rugby
Sour Grapes From Tongan Coach
The following article has been copied from MSN News, a story line, post Tongan loss to Canada. For those who viewed the game and the infractions, it is hard NOT to agree with suspensions meted by an independant Board. TORONTO - Canadian rugby coach Kieran Crowley has dismissed...
U20's Drop Final To Azurri
Canada trailed Italy at the interval by a mere four points, 6 - 10 in the JWRC Final. However, not unlike the Senior Mens game, a massive 52 points were scored in the second stanza, with Canada being on the receiving end of a 23 -45 loss. From reports a couple of "yellows" against Canada did...
CANADA HANGS ON FOR WIN
HERE'S THE MATCH VIDEO IF YOU MISSED IT - ENJOY! Team Canada managed to hang on for 36 to 27 point win over visiting Tonga in their third Pacific Cup match. This was the second win over Tonga in the past year, probably vaulting Canada over Tonga in world rugby standings. It was a...
CW CONGRATULATES CAPTAIN CARPS
NSMT's Captain, Aaaron Carpenter reaches the FIFYT CAP plateau today when he leads the boys against Tonga. This is an outstanding effort and he joins an ellite club. CW wishes to offer sincere congratulations on this service and also wish him the best of luck in today's outing. He will be...
Senior Men Vs. Tonga
Coach Crowley has announced his squad of 23 players to go up against Tonga this Saturday at Queens University. A delayed telecast of the match will be aired on Rogers Sportsnet World @ 6:00 p.m. (PST). Canada’s Roster for Tonga – Name, (Club/CRC Team) Hometown #1 - Hubert Buydens,...
Some Days Are Diamonds.....
Some days are stones but yesterday was a four diamond day for Rugby Canada’s Men’s Program. The Men’s U20 team scored a solid; four try victory over Uruguay, 36 – 15. This put them at the head of Pool A and they now play Italy on Sunday to see who gets promoted back to the World Tier One...
Rugby Canada Selects Squad Vs. Fiji - Wednesday.
Coach Crowley has named his squad to take on the Fijians this Wednesday at BMO Field, Toronto, KO., @ 3:00 p.m. PST. The Fijians defeated Japan handily last week and pose a problem for the Canadians. If you watch French, English and Super XV rugby, you would be constantly amazed by the size...
"I Wanna Be Like Mike (Pyke)!"
Sydney Swans, winners of the Australian Footbal League (aka Aussie Rules), last season, currently sit in third place after ten games so far this season. This is due in no small way to the league-leading "mark" taker, Canadian NSMT, Victorian and former CW-er, Mike Pyke. Pyker was the talk...
SOME RECENT SCORES
CANADIAN U20: Let's start with the most exciting! Canada's U20's wailed on Japan with a six try performance, 39 to 15. Jake Webster from Ontario scored a hat trick, O'Leary added more points from the boot and Hammond played competently @ # 9 whilst Peter Van Buren was amongst the reserves. ...
BC BEARS ANNOUNCE COACHING STAFF
A strong triad of coach-management has been named for the upcoming summer season of CRC's. Head Coach is Burnaby's, Jim Dixon, a man of eclectic rugby background and experience, who along with Kris De Scossa has been the mastermind of Burnaby's resurgence over the past three seasons. He will...
MIKEYS TO PLAY IN BERMUDA
Fuailefau and Scholz have been chosen to play, along with a couple of other Canucks including Pat Parfrey, for a Barbarian-style team against top English club, Saracens, this Friday Night as a Fundraiser for Bermudan Youth Rugby. The encounter will be filmed by UK's Total Rugby. In the...
CANADA U20's OPEN WITH A
"Irish /Canadian", Shane O'Leary from Limerick notched fourteen points with the boot as Canada opened their WJRC with a win over Tonga by a score of 24 to 6. Tonga always has huge tough boys at this age group and two years ago, Canada suffered a loss to them. It was good to read of solid play...
BITS & PIECES
CANADA NSMT 16 - USA 9. (FRF in action - Tieds and Hubie at work.) Canada Senior Mens Team defeated USA in the opener of the Pacific Nations Cup today in Edmonton. Conditions were inclement as the boot of Connor Braid accounted for eleven points and Canada's John Moonlight scored the sole...
Match Preview - Canada vs USA in Edmonton, Alberta
CANADA VS. USA: IRB PREVIEW Thursday, May 23, 2013 - Submitted by IRB Communications Ahead of Canada’s Pacific Nations Cup opener against the USA this Saturday, the IRB has released their official match preview document. This will be the inaugural PNC match...
Girls Sevens takes off in Victoria !
Girls rugby is getting focus in both the province and locally as the BC High School Boys and Girls Sevens competition is underway in Vancouver this weekend. Locally, girls rugby has received a big boost with its first ever Girls Sevens league boasting a total of 8 teams including the...
CW gets recognized at Rugby Canada Awards Dinner
Rugby Canada launched its First Annual Awards Dinner, Saturday night April 13th at The Westin Bear Mountain Hotel in Langford, B.C. CW Rugby players with the National teams were well represented and two CW players received special recognition. Prop Hubert Buydens was named the winner of...
Kudos to Rugby Canada
It is great to report Rugby Canada "thinking outside the box". Last week, RC's Steve Lancaster, newly appointed, Kiwi Manager of High Performance and Mike Shelley, SMNT U20 Coach, visited the CFL trials for players selling their wares to the various Canadian scouts. This UTube Total...
South Africa Takes Home Prize As Sun Sets On Edo
Despite winning the Shield at Tokyo, Canada Mens Sevens squad dropped two places on the overall table, with both Australia and England vaulting back into the top ten. Day#2 saw the boys lose to Kenya, 5 -17 and drop to the Shield Competition. After a 35 - 0 drubbing of Spain, they...
Tenuous Start To Tokyo
Canada found the going tough in their opener at the Tokyo Sevens. Everyone wants a part of the "top ten" and hosts, Japan, containing names such as Loti Toquiri and one or two other of non-Japanese lineage, showed no respect in their 14 - 10 win over Canada in the tourney's opener. Japan...
The Weekend That Was!
The curtain draws on a very interesting weekend. Firstly, congratulations to the NSMT Sevens, marginally being nutted by Samoa 7 -12 in the Plate Final at Hong Kong. The boys earned 12 MAJOR points, moving up the ladder to ninth place, vaulting the more illustrious 'Poms'. An excellent...