Fifteens
Castaway Wanderers Kickoff Weekend - Saturday, September 13
Oak Bay – The BC Premiership Rugby season kicks off Saturday, September 13th including a hometown match-up between two teams with a lot to prove. Premiership Division regulars, Castaway Wanderers are putting last season’s semi-final exit vs. James Bay Athletic Association behind them...
Mini Coaches Have a Run !
Former "greats" and now mini coaches Ed Knaggs, Aaron Cook, Matt Gordon and Lee Wakely helped CW go 3-0 at the Ebb tide season opening 10-a-side tourney. Proving that you are never too old to put on the boots, CW mini coaches and other over 40s players (I am as good as I never was...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
Another High Achievement for Women. Canada’s U20 Women won a second, high profile silver medal yesterday when they finished runner-up to Australia at the Youth Olympics at Nanjing, China. Perhaps the journey was more important than the destination. In Pool play, Canada lost to China, 24 –...
Not Enough Superlatives!
Well, Canada's dream run is over. Fair go for the English - runners-up three times and today their defence was simply impregnable and Scarrat showed her class, as it should have been. This pundit cannot offer sufficient superlatives for the effort throughout this campaign and especially,...
Go, Ladies, Go!
JOIN LIKE-MINDED RED NATION FANS AT THE TEMPLE. VIEW A CANADIAN VICTORY - 9:30 a.m. 714 DISCOVERY...
Oh, Canada!
By now, any readers of this site would have seen/ heard about the Women's monumental, semi-final victory yesterday over France, 18 - 16. One cannot offer enough superlatives for this monumental milestone for Canadian Rugby, specifically, for Canadian Women’s Rugby. Their self-belief,...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
RUGBY CANADA Vs HOST NATION IN RWC SEMI-FINAL. RC Women take on France in Paris this morning, with an expected crowd of 20,000 in attendance…….98% French Fanatics! Our Women went 1 - 1 on their Fall Tour to France, so expectations can be high, following their very successful campaign to date....
Weekend Results
Gavin Kratz & Brennig Prevost (CW), proudly display their gold medals, winning Boy's U16. AGE GRADE NATIONALS U18 Men d. Ontario; U18 Women – come back after loss to Ontario in Round Robin for 10 – 7 Championship victory. U17 Men d. Quebec. U16 Men #1 d. Alberta, 26 – 0 for 1st Place;...
Bouquets, You Beauties!
If you were not a fan of the women’s game before this morning’s Canada Vs England, 13 – 13 tie, you most certainly would have changed your tune by game’s end. It was a classic battle between two fairly equal teams, with play ebbing and flowing from end to end. On the day, Canada was unlucky not...
Woe is Us - Women Play Tomorrow!
We bring you this video clip as an apology for getting our date wrong! Tricolor fans were up early this morning to watch the key game and as you no doubt discovered - our bad, wrong day! That's the way it goes sometimes although word from Coach Duke's mouth - "We are ready"! So it will...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
Canada Women Go 2 – 0 @ RWC, Paris. Canada Women scored six tries (through the backs) and 21 points in each half to decimate Samoa yesterday. The point’s differential was big however they still need to beat or tie England on Friday to get into the Championship side of the affair. Brittany...
NSWT Announce Major Changes For Samoa
This review of the women's opener against Spain shows some classic stuff! Just loved Harvey's convert of her own first tally from the side line - skills some local "kickers" would envy. The game report you read here asked some questions of the performance and speculated that the...
Canadian Women Hurdle Spain In Opener
After a shaky start, the women got untracked, led by a hat trick of first half tallies from speedy, Magoli Harvey. The interval score had Canada up 24 - 0, with the promise of more to come. After what must have been a "perplexing" second forty, the final score read 31 - 7, a 7 - 7 second...
A Plethora Of Points
Canada won the Bowl at the Commonwealth Games yesterday in Glasgow. South Africa upset N.Z. for the gold and Geriant John's Aussies took the bronze. There were nine "core" teams in this contest and unluckily for the boys, they finished ninth when they failed to qualify for championship play...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
A New Season Dawns IMPORTANT NOTE TO PLAYERS To all senior players age 19 and above, (Thirds, Firsts, Prems)! Please complete this two minute survey to help us assess our numbers for the fall. If you know anyone THINKING of playing CW, please have them complete this survey also. Survey...
A Reflection From Papa Bear
Hola Supporters, I am in Montevideo airport waiting to start the long trip back home. Firstly, I want to thank you all for the support shown me throughout my years at CW, especially recently for the fundraising efforts to help with this current BC Bears tour to South America. These trips are...
To Bear Or Not To Bear, That Is The Question!
B.C. has selected their strongest combination to take on the Uruguayan Nats tomorrow in Montevideo. CW's Jake Ilnicki and Gord Kehoe get the starting nod in a side led by UBCOB's, Callum Morrison and UVic's Pat Kat leads the backs. In a recent blog we referred to South American opposition...
Bears Bushwhacked By Buenos Aires
From Another Of Our Boys In Buenos Aires.....A big thank you to all CW fans who support us through the season and continue to show their support for myself and the other CW players as we continue to develop our rugby at the next level. Day 3 - As the wet weather continued, thunderstorms...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
Lucas Hammond - An Opportnity! Lucas Hammond has hung his Eastern Canada hat on CW's peg for some three seasons however for the past two seasons this young man has moved from Windsor Park to U.Vic to Kiwiland, appearing on one or two occasions with the Sevens Krew, he has now been called upon...
July 4th Fundraiser
It was more than a celebration of the date, it was an extremely successful event held at The Temple last Friday to support the five CW lads who will be travelling with the B.C. Bears to South America. The tour celebrates 125 years of the existence of the B.C.R.U. A HUGE CW THANKS to...
A Plethora of Junior Rugby
Support for a rampant Tide player.... So let's start with the Tide U15's video above, (and credit to Velox parent, Jim Hayhurst). This group finished in third place two weeks ago at the PRC's however, a number of these boys were in Vancouver on the weekend trying out for selection to the...
B.C. Bears Bash
FUND-RAISER REMINDER, TOMORROW, July 4th at the Clubhouse from 4:30 to 7pm.Five CW lads......Two coaches, Kenny Goodland and Roger Robinson....three players, Gord Kehoe, Jake Ilnicki and Jonny Morris.....are going with the BC Bears on tour to Argentina mid July. Each need to come up with $1,800...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
This fan was pretty impressed with the effort of the Junior Tide U16 squad Vs Down H.S. the other day. Spence insisted "ball in hand", otherwise the 12 - 15 scoreline may well have been reversed. Slow to get going but at the quarter, Conor King made great headway and the locals led 7 - 0. ...
Down Comes To Town
Down H.S. have hit the North American continent, playing N.W. Loggers. The 2ND XV won their game although the 1ST XV lost a close one by a score of 15 - 12. The Loggers fielded a team of U19's, so it is expected that tomorrow's game against the Tide U18's will be a dandy. See you at the Park...
Canada Collapses
MoM, Jones, feeds DTH..... Predicted here was the fact that the Eagles could be expected to show greater cohesiveness – prediction correct. It was a match that was entertaining enough but errors aplenty abounded. The Eagles could have been taken but if this was Canada’s best effort...