B.C. Rugby
Three On The Docket At MacDonald
Late-breaking….. CW Women will field a team on the road to Comox tomorrow. The Men’s Islanders, slated for the same venue has resulted in an embarrassing CW forfeiture. For the first two home games, CW has managed three teams on the same day however, it appears that this weekend the...
Monday's Musings
CLOSER … BUT, Still A Bagel! CW Men played three games on Saturday, resulting in two losses and a tie. The Third Div., Islanders were at UVic to take on Shane Muldrew’s, very fit Saxons squad. Although it was a competitive first half, the final score was a lot to a few. Despite this...
Will They Break The Bagel?
Tomorrow CW Men will field sixty-seven players in three games. Action starts with the Islanders at UVic Vs Saxons at 11:00 a.m. Divvies open action Vs Westshore in the curtain-raiser at 1:00 at the House of Windsor, with the main game kicking off at 2:30. Wow, 67 strong, including two sets...
Junior Boys Season Starts With A BANG!!
Boys Age Grade Director, Byron Mc Allister reports in with some weekend results. CW’s U14 & U16 lads were in action at the James Bay Jamboree Sevens and went undefeated in play. A great day for rugby and lots of fun for the lads. There was action aplenty across town at Westshore RFC when...
Monday's Musings
Kickers In The House Last Saturday, Comox Women brought almost a full team and CW had some 25 ladies dressed for four quarters of teams twelve-aside. The Hosts managed go ahead margins in all four sessions. The Visitors put in a solid effort although appearing somewhat weary in the...
Weekend Doings
CW's Premier Reserve Men travel to Port Alberni tomorrow for their first Roadie of the season. Port are always a vigorous opponent, especially so, at home. Their club "gets" the true comraderie of rugby, for their hosting is renowned. Good luck to the lads - do us proud, safe trip, good game...
A Tough Day At The Office
M-o-M, Steve Pyke, breaks out. There was plenty of scoring, but Saturday was a tough day for the hosts. The curtain-raiser to the curtain-raiser saw the Comox Kickers take the laurels. It was great to see Comox with a full roster, a sign of health of the code in the Upper Island. They...
OPENING DAY
CW Men's Rugby is managing to dress 53 players for three games today at Windsor Park. The Premier Men will feature some returnees and a few new faces. The pack, although reshuffled a little, has a good crew of experienced players with big lock, Nat Dring added to the mix. This was a...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
OPENING DAY TRIPLE HEADER CW Men’s rugby will open their season with three games @ the House of Windsor this Saturday. Resources will be pushed to the max early in the season and could well forebode what matters might look like for the rest of the show. Matches start at 11:30 a.m. when...
Monday's Musings
ACHIEVING GOALS - WITH JULIA SCHELL Julia, It is a privilege to be able to ask you a few questions about your young rugby career. Your recent eighty minutes against Italy raised many eyebrows in only your second test for NSWT. From a diminutive 5’4” player, we at CW have been fortunate to...
NATIONAL TO LOCAL
Weekend news starts today with a hearty congratulations to ALL players selected to the NSWT’s XV’s – off to challenge for the RWC. A local paper gave a great write-up to the young Captain, Sophie De Goede, during the week. Sophie started her rugby journey at Windsor Park around the age of six...
SATURDAY - A RUGBY DAY
PATHWAY PLAYERS Today’s photo includes a wonderful group of players who have stayed with the game from a young age. Sophie de Goede, NSWT Captain, led her ladies to a 31 – 3 victory over Wales today in their final game of preparation prior to the RWC; Jack Carson – NSMT 7’s and UBC Varsity;...
RULES of COMPETITION
Ken Goodland - CW's pensive Director of Rugby Some time back we promised to try to catch up with the club's, very busy Director of Rugby to tease out his thoughts on the newly minted Competitions Committee, Rules of Competition for the 2022 - 23 season. Here we go..... Ken, our first...
REGISTRATION IS LIVE!
CW is pleased to announce that REGISTRATION for the coming season is up and running. Age Grade returnees will note that divisions for this season are U14, U16, U18/19. Junior Coaches Update Meeting – Wed., 31st August, Windsor Park Pavilion Boys and Girls Youth Camp Day – Sat.,...
Monday's Musings
A Memory For All Time Photo with thanks to ESPN Twitter. Australian Wallaby flanker, Jed Holloway took time long after the final whistle in Mendoza to celebrate and ponder the memory of his debut and Wallaby win last weekend. What a joy to see such pure ecstacy and reflection on hard work...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
BC AGE GRADE TEAMS CLEAN UP AT WESTERN CANADA CHAMPIONSHIPS Pictured are the Girls and Boys winning U18 teams at the BC Day long weekend Championships held in Kelowna. BC Day long weekend turned out to be fitting for the Age Grade teams that played in the Western Canada...
WORLD CUP PRELIMINARY
Captain Canada, Sophie De Goede – all concentration. Today we wish to offer our support for the Canadian NSWT XV for their match against Italy on Sunday. CW fans should enjoy watching ladies who have worn club colours in recent years, highlighted by the leadership of Sophie. Sophie has...
Rugby? It's all about golf!
Rather hard to drag oneself away from The Open at R & A but with one week to go to a rather 'big' Women's International upcoming, here goes! Since last posting we have seen two Men's Internationals played "at home". Firstly, there was Belgium when some tries went a-begging in the first...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
With the recent celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day, Rugby Canada ran this great oped about "CW's", Gabby Senft. Gabby started in an "all CW" backrow of DeGoede, Buisa and Senft in the recent victory by our NSWT XV's over Australia. Gabby has hung her hat with Ceedub...
Monday's Musings
SATURDAY, A RUGBY DAY ALL AROUND THE WORLD (Photo - Rugby Canada) SUPER RUGBY finished another campaign in the Antipodes with a clinical Crusaders side defeating a hopeful Auckland Blues team, 21 – 7. It was elsewhere in NZ where Canadian eyes were focussed, with our NSWT VX’s taking on...
Monday's Musings
DIFFERENT SILKS, SAME THOROUGHBREDS! In 100 deg. heat on Saturday, UBCOB Ravens defeated top Uruguayan club side, Penarol in the first match of the Challenge Cup of the Americas held at the Home of US Rugby, Glendale, Colorado. In the other match the Argentinian Jaguares defeated the...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
Photo credit - Rugby Canada. BORN TO LEAD CW is ever so proud to recognise today, its role in the rugby ‘upbringing’ of Captain Canada, Sophie De Goede. In the same vein, we appreciate Soph’s recognition of her “club” in all her promos and press. Sophie was awarded W-o-M in last...
Grady Leads Backs
CW’s, Grady Bowd could take a huge step today towards pushing his case for selection for Canada’s NSMT XV’s summer tests, as he starts at #10 for Canada West Selects today against their Atlantic counterparts. Bowd caught the eye of many knowledgeable rugby fans with his Premier league campaign...
Monday's Musings
Maddy Kicks Off Push For The Line CW would like to thank ALL of those who contributed to our recent On-Line Auction Fundraiser, the first of two MAJOR fundraising events in lieu of our former Annual Dinner. There were those who donated the 40 – 50 items – THANK YOU. Then there were those...
Saturday Rugby
Not quite as exciting as this time last week, however, there will be rugby tomorrow at Shawnigan Lake School, kickoff, 2:00 p.m. The US Raptors will play forty minutes against a VIRU "U25" team and forty minutes against a VRU "U25" team and the Island will play the Mainland in a thirty...