Canada Rugby
Rugby On The Horizon
Canada's National Team players - men and women have an extremely heavy schedule on their plates over the next month with some players having to perform double duties at both sevens and fifteens play. The men start on November 3rd when they take on the NZ Maori All Blacks, featuring six...
Pane Cracked But Not Shattered
Led by the Captain, Kleeberger, Canada put up a far better showing in last night's final ARC encounter than their midweek performance against the U.S. The set scrum was much improved with tight head scrum wins "book-ending" the encounter, far better tackling at the defensive line and for the...
A Window Of Opportunity?
With what appears to be a stronger side on paper, Canada will hope to cause a monumental upset in tonight's final ARC encounter against Argentina. The locks have been beefed up, with Morrison partnering Flagg who had a good game in the opener against Uruguay, the back row looks bigger and...
Dryworld Is Everywhere
It is with great pride that CW can now announce its relationship with Dryworld Industries, joining other prominent rugby bodies, Rugby Canada and BCRN. As published elsewhere on this site, Co-owner and CW faithful, Matt Weingart, yesterday presented a pair of Dry Feet to John...
ARC's Continue
Pretty much yesterday's news now but a few words from this fan. U.S. were bigger and better. This was a win the red, white and blue would relish, rubbing some salt in with their three tries. I missed it in the flesh but watched "downstream" and it was a disappointing Canadian...
Worthy Effort Falls Short
CW's, Ciaran Hearn in full stride Vs Spain Canada gave another Sevens memorable effort at the 'first-up', Gold Coast Tournament yesterday when they were nipped by France in overtime in the Bowl Final, 14 - 19. Points earned in this opener have the men placed tenth of the sixteen teams on...
Wraps Off At Westhills
CW's, Mike Scholz crosses for the winning points Vs Uruguay. Victoria's second hosting of the Americas Rugby Championships opened with a pair of games at Langford's Westhills Stadium last night. Overall impressions...the event has been heavily marketted and a good crowd was present,...
Permutations Drop Canucks to Bowl
Canada suffered two dismal spells of luck during the past 24 hours, losing both its Sevens Captain and XV's Captain to injury. At the Gold Coast in Oz, Canada opened against the always tough, Fiji. Our boys respect but are no longer in awe of the opposition on the circuit and held the...
Captain Tieds Leads Canada Against Uruguay
CW's Club Captain, Andrew Tiedemann has been selected to lead the NSMT for their contests in the upcoming ARC's. Andrew will have Gorvorchin (BLRFC) and Jake Illnicki (Williams Lake) starting as FRF, Flagg (CW), Morrison (UBCOB), Kleeberger (CW), Coughlin (JBAA) McQueen (Balmy Beach)...
Gathering Of The Establishment
This week sees a FIRST for Canadian Rugby as the International Rugby Board (IRB) aka Gods of Rugby, gather in Vancouver for a week of meetings; a general meeting of the Board and its sub-committees. As pictured, it is a propitious time to announce the ground-breaking for additional facilities...
Canada At The Gold Coast
The Maple Leafs landed in Brisbane yesterday in temperatures hovering around 30 deg., to play in the opening round of the Sevens Circuit. The squad includes a number of CW "connections" and will be captained by UVic's, Nate Hirayama. Senior members are; Ciaran Hearn, John Moonlight (nb....
Los Pumas Vover A Windsor Park
CW Minis & U14's will take advantage of watching an International team train when Argentina takes to Windsor Park this coming Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. and next Sunday at 10:30 a.m. On Wednesday, the U14's will train after Los Pumas at 4:30 and Coach Shane has asked as many as possible to take in...
Rugby Canada Announces ARC Squad
Coach Crowley has announced his 25 man roster for the upcoming ARC's to be held again at Westhills Arena in Langford, starting October 11th when Canada takes on Argentina at 6:00 p.m. It is a very interesting mix of players, predominantly coming from the recent CRC Competition, an...
That Other Code
This time last year, our site was all agog with the news that CW and NSMT's player, Mike Pyke was playing in the Australian Rules Football Grand Final. Not only was Mike playing, he featured predominantly and was feted widely in The Land Downunder when his Sydney Swans won the title. One...
Ro 'Bud' Hindson Added To Hall Of Fame
CW is very happy to announce that Ro Hindson, of the former unamalgamated Castaway RFC was inducted to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame last week. Hindson who played his rugby with UVic, UBC, UBCOB and a lengthy stint with Castaways, still has a strong affinity with CW RFC. His blond flowing...
Off To Oz
Despite the unavailability of players such as; Mack, Trainor, Ardron, Duke, Hassler, O'Toole, De Goede, Kleeberger and Scholt, Geraint John has selected a solid squad for the trek to Oz. Nate Hirayama from the Vikes will skipper the side which will include vets, Moonlight, Dala, Hearn...
CW's Kleeberger and Fuailefau Join Bears For Final Fling
Looks like Fuli and Zac could be on opposite sides of the ball on Saturday! Adam Kleeberger and Mike Fuailefau have been selected for the Bears as they take to the road for a hoped for, measure of respectability, this weekend. The Bears ( 1 & 3) play the Prairie Wolf Pack (2 & 2) in...
Americas Rugby Championship
Rugby Canada will host the IRB Americas Rugby Championship 2013 in October at a time when the sport is enjoying unprecedented interest and growth in North America. Hot off the back of Canada’s qualification for Rugby World Cup 2015, the four-team six-match IRB-funded international...
Recapping The Weekend
Scotty ('The Bus') Franklin, on the rampage at Gordon Head. Relishing his return to #8, Scott had a solid game, being named MoM. (Game photos posted - credits, Ron Willems.) The two matches at Gordon Head produced somewhat stereotyped results, with CW opening up big leads and the home...
All The Latest
D DAY FOR DONORS....... tomorrow (Friday 13th...nothing suspicious about that!!) is the last day for CW's Blood Drive. Congratulations and thanks to NSMT guys, who give blood on and off the field - Adam Kleeberger, Connor Trainor, Ciaran Hearn, Pat Kay, John Moonlight, Mike Fuli and Connor...
Recent Reflections Of The "Average Joe" Club Fan
The Prez and Joe Fuli ham it up! The paradoxes of Canadian Rugby from global to local are many. The fan has to admit joy with the successes of the Men's and Women's XV's and VII's results over the past 6 - 8 months however the questions of where and how far we go are enigmatic. This...
It's No Fluke!
............that Canada's Senior Mens Team program is showing a vast imrovement with performance and results. The video shows some of the approach that has been responsible for recent gains. It is also a very motivating collage for any young players who are thinking of focussing on rugby with...
Grizz Open Their Account - 40 - 18.
CW thanks Mark Bryant of BCRN for posting this to UTube. Plaudits to all players on the pitch tonight for a positive effort to play both constructive and entertaining rugby. This comment is not to negate the intensity of the defensive effort witnessed on Friday but tonight's Bears...
CRC's Resume Tomorrow
Clubmates from last season, Burger and Barkwill did battle on Friday. The Canadian Regional Championships come back to Westhills Stadium tomorrow when the B.C. Bears play The (Atlantic) Rock at 4:30 p.m. A casual fan wonders just how Rugby Canada (or whomever), could sanction a...
..........And Now For Something Rather Special
This promo video for Women's Rugby comes compliments of Rugby Canada. It is insightful to see just why the Women's program has been so successful over the past months. You go,...