Coaching
NEW MEN'S HEAD COACH FOR TRICOLOURS
CW Board has selected a new Head Coach to replace Scott Manning. Most readers will know by now that Scott has moved “back” to UVic to head up the University program. Today the club would like to congratulate Ken Goodland who has been appointed to take on the coaching position. Ken has been...
UVIC Gains; CW Gives!
It is with a tremendous sense of loss, yet pride, that the CW Tricolours today congratulate Coach Scott Manning who has been announced as the Head Coach of the UVic Vikes Rugby Program. Scott was appointed Coach of CW Rugby some five seasons back when he was completing his Masters of Education...
Monday's Musings
(Credit - Victoria Times Colonist) Doug Tate and Rick Farally announced their “second” retirement from coaching rugby at UVic last week. They retired at the end of the 2019 season, then came Covid! They agreed to stay on in an interim measure to ensure recruiting would occur and current...
CW Members message
Dear CW Members, Castaway Wanderers RFC has been made aware of serious allegations on social media against one of our coaches. We are shocked by the allegations and condemn the behaviour described. Castaway Wanderers is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
Rugby U7 Rookie, Hudson, shares his joy at starting the game! Six weeks have passed since our last posting and we continue to slog through Covid times. However, today, it is a glimmer of bright news that is passed to the many ‘starved’ CW fans. Having heard pronouncements regarding...
Monday's Musings
Coach Manning reflects on the “first half” of the season. Castaway Wanderers Coach Scott Manning, Saturday November 28, 2020 at Windsor Park looking over a group of 30 CW Men having a final training session with touch. (And now some reflections from The Sage on the Sidelines). “Since...
Monday's Musings
(Credit, Sydney Morning Herald.) Hot off the press from our Kiwi correspondent, what rugby addicts have suspected for some time, South African sides have moved to the Northern Hemisphere Pro D League! From Stuff Sport; “New Zealand Rugby boss Mark Robinson didn’t spit out...
Monday's Musings
Rob Howley. (Credit - Mark Baker, Canadian Press.) BIG NEWS on the National Rugby front is the recent appointment of Welshman, Rob Howley to work with Head Men’s Coach, Kingsley Jones, as his Senior Assistant Coach. At the same time Howley will supplement his salary, serving as a...
Monday's Musings
RUGBY EXTRAVAGANZA @ WESTHILLS CW has a healthy selection of players named to the B.C. Reps team that will take on the NSMT in their penultimate game prior to departure for RWC this coming Friday (30th) @ the newly minted Westhills Stadium. The match will kick off at 6:30 p.m. The main...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
ARDRON HEADS UP LONGLIST Tyler Ardron, playing in this weekend’s Super Rugby Qualifying Final, heads up NSMT’s long-list of forty names, as Captain for the upcoming RWC. This long list is not exclusive for those currently injured who may become available. It is with interest that there are...
Monday's Musings
SATURDAY'S SCOREBOARD PREMIER WOMEN UPSET AT KLAHANIE This was not a Cup Final but what must have been a very satisfying upset for our ladies, posting a 39 – 19 score over the home-team, Capilanos. Caps, in second place in a league which currently looks like, Westshore and the rest, must...
POSTSCRIPT MUSINGS
Riley Inicki and Cole Braid in action, Saturday. Yesterday’s game report was cobbled through rather hazy eyes after a BIG weekend! In the report we applauded the Bay’s, Cole Braid who had overcome a go round with cancer some years back. Some of our special interest and pride comes from the...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
GIRLS RUGBY CONTINUES TO GROW Today's photo features three young CW players who participated along with seventeen team mates at the U12 and U14 levels and 73 other girls from Westshore, Cowichan, James Bay and Comox at a weekend clinic held at Belmont H.S., conducted by BCRU Youth...
MLR CHAMPS in TOWN
"CW's" Ray Barkwill Jubilantly Hoists the Spoils! VIRU CRIMSON TIDE Vs SEATTLE SEAWOLVES Seattle Seawolves will take on Vancouver Island’s Crimson Tide tomorrow afternoon, 4:00 p.m. kickoff at Westhills Stadium. The Tide, an amalgam of Island Premier teams has not been assembled for...
Monday's Musings
B.C. CHAMPS REPEAT VICTORS Anybody who took in the B.C. U19 Men’s Final yesterday could not quibble with the fact that for 80% of the game the victors displayed a style of rugby that was incredibly effective and efficient in such inclement conditions. To risk playing expansive,...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
CW's Doug Fraser on the burst with B.C. Bears Tomorrow sees the B.C. Bears in semi-final action for the Canadian regional Championships when they play Ontario Blues in Calgary at 4:00 (PST). The match will be downstreamed HERE. CW congratulates Mike Finnemore, selected to play lock,...
AROUND CEEDUB
CW’s President has released the following presser, relating to club coaching for the coming season; VICTORIA – Castaway Wanderers Rugby President Matt Gordon is pleased to announce Ken Goodland is returning to the club as the Senior Men’s Assistant Head Coach and the club's forwards coach. Ken...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul on Thursday!
We received plenty of compliments and comments on this week’s Musings header photo, featuring Mozac Samson in CW colors and recent captain, Doug Fraser in Vikes colors! These two players competed against each other last weekend, Zac in Wolfpack colors and Doug in Bears uni. The photo was shot...
Monday's Musings
Other times? (OR just different jerseys??) “Give it to Mozac”……………..came the chants in the late going. I read this somewhere in the tweets when trying to get scores of last Friday’s CRC match between the B.C. Bears and Prairie Wolfpack. If you didn’t get it………..in a nutshell. BC opened with...
Monday's Musings
City By the Bay Hosts World Cup Sevens BCRU PRC’s Update Finale From CW’s Ed Knaggs, (Coach V.I. South U14 Girls – 2ND place), CW members; Anna Palmer, Gwynnie Fry, Jesse Knaggs, Arianna Lloyd, Jorja Cook, Marley Robinson, Kalen Timothy, Marissa Shumka, Petra Lord, Sophie Bossi and...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
CW congratulates Sandro Fiorino on the recent announcement of his selection as Head Coach of our NSWT’s XV’s program. There will be an upcoming trial game between East and West as he starts to compile a “long list” of talent. Our CW female program would like to congratulate the CW...
Monday's Musings
BARNARD CUP WINNERS. 2017-18. It is with our deepest sympathy that we offer the most sincere condolences to the family of Elliot Eurchuk, for their recent loss. Circumstances of this sad loss can be read HERE. We offer the President’s message which summarizes matters for our CW Family, I...
....And Then There Were Four!
OMG....Shut the front door! Heartiest congratulations to CW Men and Women Premier teams, both qualifying for the final four. The Men turned the tables on UVic with a 45 – 37 win and the women had a fantastic victory over Burnaby, 53 – 29 on Saturday. Indeed, CW is one of two club sides...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
The Little Master in action Our game report labelled Gus Boyd-Porter as “The Little Master”. Indeed, an honour. Clive Churchill, the original and still, one and only, played rugby league for South Sydney Rabbitohs in the 50’s. Sydney’s southern suburbs were a tough place to reside...
VALE - Don Burgess
In recent days much has been written in a variety of sources about the life of Don Burgess. ‘Burge’ was in many ways, a rugby Renaissance Man – one ahead of his time. Nearly everyone who has responded to the loss of Don, has referred to the values and qualities of Don, the man. Anyone who...