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Monday Musings
Braddock - another tireless performance. Director of Rugby, Brent Johnston, offers his game observations today and we have spiced them with a few other comments offered by fans. BJ: “At game’s end, I felt I had seen this same picture some twelve months ago! The match was in reach at the half,...
CW Crosstown Vs UVic., etc.
Late-breaking because we have been holding out for lineups but it seems, "no-can-do", as an early season void has forced late selections. We can tell you that the 1:00 p.m. match CW Ones Vs Norse has been rescheduled. So it's just the "main game" Vikes hosting The Tricolors @ 2:45 @...
Wednesday's, "Ruck & Maul".
MEET THE NEW PREZ CW welcomes a new man to the helm, Don Swainson. We recently chatted with Don about the task. CW: Don, you have recently returned to Victoria, home of your H.S. Alma Mater, Oak Bay H.S. and their rugby Barbs. You have re-connected with former classmates and teammates from...
CW U18's @ Caps Inaugural Sevens
The U18's travelled over to North Vancouver to be a part of the inaugural North Shore 7s, hosted expertly by the Capilano Rugby Club. CW travelled with twenty-five athletes, with two teams competing in the 7s competition and one team in the innovative "5s", which was a competition exclusively...
CW Pinches a Pair in Opener
Sony Bill Woolridge Offloads The table was set by The Ones against a “younger” Academy from the Valhallians when they wound up, led by a four-try performance from Sammy Rocher, defeating the VV, 37 – 10. Down 7 – 10 at the interval, The Tricolors cranked it up a notch, scoring thirty...
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...
Registration Update
Bad news - Good news........schools are not in session, good news.........CW has decided to delay early bird registration specials for all ages until midnight, September 11th, owing to inconveniences of recruitment via schools not being open. Youth players, if you have a friend who is...
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
CWRFC is announcing registration for Fall programs - mini rugby, junior boys and girls and senior men, with discounts if you register before August 31st. You can register by going HERE. ...
Wednesday's, "Ruck & Maul"
All's quiet on the rugby front this week. We remind everyone that Sunday, September 7th is a BIG day @ Windsor Park with Minis kicking off at 10:00 a.m. Registration for girls and junior boys will be available from 10:00 onwards and if you have not registered already (you may have...
Monday Musings - Profile, Pritch
CW offers special congratulations to Canada’s, James Pritchard who is being feted by his club, the Bedford Blues with the honor of the upcoming season being a Testimonial one for him. The coming campaign will be Pritch's 11th at Goldington Road and the year ahead holds some very special events...
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!
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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...
Things According To Hoyle, So Far In Glasgow
Canada's Sevens entourage opened up with a lop-sided loss to the Kiwis, 0 - 39 in Glasgow this morning. Game #2 saw them take revenge on the hapless Barbadians, 68 - 5 and pictured here, the lads rest up for their final match against Scotland which is shaping up to be epic. The...
Commonwealth Games
(We bring you this article, courtesy of Rugby Canada website, for those of you who go to cwrugby.com first - and we thank you. It appears that the Scots have brought in some heavy artillery for the Sevens team. Scotland is already flexing its muscle in the medal count, although this pundit...