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Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
Photo credit - Photosport A Long Way From Home. Last Saturday a crowd of some 34,000 gathered to watch the All-Black Vs Fiji game at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium (beers - $26NZ!!). The All Blacks proved superior by a score of 47 - 5. Just a brief mention, adding great kudos from NZ...
Monday's Musings
JOY IN MUDVILLE – NSMT’s MOMENTOUS WIN (Photo - Rugby Canada) It’s been a long time between drinks but total credit to the NSMT on their very solid victory over higher ranked, Romania on Friday evening. This group has been under tremendous pressure to breach a drought of losses, so there...
Paris Bound!
Today CW honors and congratulates Caroline Crossley who has been selected for the NSWT's VII's for the upcoming Paris Olympics. Caroline has been a member of CW rugby since her very young years. She has faced recent injury adversity, overcoming surgery and rehabilitation over an approximate...
Monday's Musings
Photo - Rugby Canada A fifty-point second half performance by a visiting second/third string Scottish team provokes today’s point of conjecture, that being, just how are Canada’s fixtures scheduled? Nothing is learned from a sixty-point shellacking. We can be as supportive all we...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
CW RUGBY ON, AND OFF THE FIELD Hats off to CW men who represented in a number of matches last weekend. The newborn, Vancouver Highlanders, opened their cause with a brace of wins. Their "A" team, featuring Jacob Bossi as a starter and Oliie Nott as an impact player, defeated Canada...
Monday's Musings
Minis Hit The Tour Trail Akin to summer tours planned by Scotland to the Americas, starting off Vs Canada; Wales, next weekend Vs South Africa, before going to Australia; and England next weekend Vs Japan, before going on to NZ; CW U12 Minis recently travelled to Vancouver to play Mulgrave School...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
This writer did receive some comments regarding a seeming lack of fairness of opinion in Monday’s Musings. With credit to Island Sports News the above photo shows much of what I observed in the game. With the line wide open and about the fifth recycle, a Canadian player was “held up”. It...
Monday's Musings
CW/UVIC SPEEDSTER, Spencer Cotie. Photo - Rugby Canada Men Mired in Mediocrity – Some Observations Following the NSMT’s Sevens abject results we now see our Men’s U20 program falling far behind the U.S. In chasing a 15-point deficit to get to the WC Tier II competition, things did...
Monday's Musings
BRICKBATS to RUGBY CANADA! Canada Men's U20 team took on their USA counterparts on Saturday at Shawnigan Lake School and came away on the losing end, 33 - 18. This writer's beef is the fact that Rugby Canada posted absolutely nothing about the match until late Friday. In fact, details of...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
(Credit Victoria News) VALE - JOE (IOSEFA) FUAILEFAU CW sends its deepest condolences today to Cindy, Matt, and Mike on the recent passing of the family patriarch, Joe. Joe was a quietly passionate Samoan man, who was also beloved amongst Victoria’s core of Pacific Islanders. He...
Monday's Musings
New Link With Oz Established CW's, Jace Peters has found himself on the pitch with the NSW Country, Cowra Eagles. The Tricolours have a great link with Casey Dunning's home club, Nelson Bay Gropers in NSW and we now extend our link to the Central West of NSW. Strangely enough, Cowra plays...
Monday's Musings
MAGNIFIQUE!! CW Rugby is so proud of the achievement of our NSWT, defeating the NZ Black Ferns on the weekend. The victory places the women as #2 ranked team in the world and also wins the Pacific Four Competition. Trailing, 3 -14 after thirty minutes, the ladies slowly ground their way...
Monday's Musings
WESTSHORE CAPITALIZE Last Saturday, Westshore Valkyries defeated CW in Premier League, semi-final action. CW women opened the scoring when Rookie-of-the-Year, Bronwyn Zodichi drove hard for the line after a good build-up. Westshore was quick to respond to a CW error and later scored a...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
PREMS PUSH FOR PLAYOFF POSITIONS Both teams are on the road this Saturday, the women facing Capilanos who have a five-point lead in the league over the visitors; however, CW has a game in hand. Caps are an old nemesis for Ceedub. CW has a superior defensive record going into this...
UNSUNG HERO - ON THE FIELD
GAVIN KRATZ Meet Gavin Kratz, the consummate ‘Hard Hat’. Gavin is a man who has spent 15+ years on the fields of Windsor Park. He is the epitome of “CW Family”. He also epitomizes the club’s commitment to players, facilitating a pathway for their rugby development and joy of the game. He...
UNSUNG HERO - OFF THE FIELD
KERRI COOK Kerri has been a familiar face at CW for several years. She has been involved in various roles within the rugby community by managing numerous club teams, managing regional, provincial and national teams, involved with Jr Tide Rugby and Team Liaison Officer with Rugby...
Monday's Musings
(Photo - Rugby Canada) VANCOUVER SEVENS- WEEKEND WARRIORS CWRFC congratulates Caroline, Sophie and all of their team mates on their ‘underdog victory’ in the bronze medal match yesterday, defeating Australia by a score of 19 – 14. Earlier, they had squeaked by the USA, 12 - 10 in...
M.I.A.
An astute follower of our site made reference to the fact that Lockie Kratz's name had been omitted to follow at the Sevens this weekend. Unfortunately, for Lockie and a couple of other teammates, they suffered serious injuries at the last tournament in Perth. Lockie's knee was...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
CHEER FOR ME! This weekend's Sevens in Vancouver, the ninth IRB version at BC PLACE will have good television coverage........ Saturday February 24 TSN4 11:20am-3:00pm PT / 2:20-6:00pm ET Pool play matches, including Canada’s Women’s Sevens Team vs Spain (11:43am PT / 2:43pm ET)...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
GOT YOUR TICKET? HERE MARCH 9, 6:00 p.m. UNION CLUB ISLAND ITEMS ON THE BLOCK (Photo - Blake Barrington) Butchart Gardens VIP Extravaganza. Four VIP tickets with reserve seating to the Fireworks. Gourmet picnic...
Monday's Musings
All That Is Good About the Game Last week the writer had the privilege of attending the club’s second Annual Junior Awards Banquet. The event was attended by some 150 players and their parents. CW Junior Boys & Girls have just completed a most rewarding and successful season and it was a time...
INNOVATORS IN RUGBY
Coach Hyde-Lay stands adjacent to the renowned and recently deceased, Kevin (“Lunk”) Wirachowski’s Scrum Master. Lunk was a creative engineer and analyst of the rugby scrum. Today’s blog is all about another creative inventor. The story has interesting and tragic components to it,...
Sale Schellshot!
Canadian Women continue to stay in the news in the UK club rugby scene. This week it was Julia Schell and Sophie de Goede. Sophie continues to be a “T(ry) – A – G(ame)” player, scoring another tally and setting one up with a skillful offload. Soph was again in the team-of-the-week All...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
Ollie scores! Rugby Reflection – A Bird’s Eye View! Received one comment about a recent blog re MLR being arguably stronger with a new Miami franchise and a relocated from Atlanta to Los Angeles franchise, and the loss of the lone Canadian Toronto Arrows franchise. The point I should...
It's A New Day - It's A NEW YEAR!
OFF THE FIELD Over the Christmas Break, the idea of resurrecting our “Unsung Hero” feature was mentioned in conversation over a bevy. We composed some questions and sent them off to Ed Knaggs. Today, we share Ed’s response. Enjoy! “A hero is not always someone who basks in the limelight. ...