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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...
The Eagle Has Landed!
A Club for all ages, eight to eighty-one! Friday provides an opportunity to gather at The Temple to welcome back the Gay family, banter with some Bears and watch the video of their successful triumph over Uruguay on the big screen. It's all happening at Happy Hour at Discovery...
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...
Mucho Cerveca Esta Noche!
Huge win today for B.C. with a late, come from behind try from UBC's, Brock Staller, no pressure, Pat Kay 3/3 converts and a three try to two victory. Other tallies from Steve Battie (BLRC), who had two very good games on tour and Sean Ferguson notched the other. This makes a perfect record for...
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...
Our Boy In Buenos Aires
CW's, Jake Ilnicki brings a Bear's report from B.A. Hola friends, I would like to start off by saying "thank you" to everyone that made this trip possible. Day 1- The Island boys headed to Van on the 8:00 ferry. Once in Van we took a limo to the airport....our first flight was to Toronto....
Youth Sevens At U.Vic
Girls U18 & Boys U14, U16 and U18 Sevens will be the rage at UVic today and tomorrow, with Finals going at 5:30 p.m., Saturday. Teams from U.S.A., Ontario and Cardinal Vaughn (U.K.) will vie for the honors. Heaps of CW kids on show and we congratulate the Aboriginal Thunder (Boys U16 and...
Wednesday's, "Ruck & Maul".
CW congratulates the following players selected for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow; Moonlight (c.), Braid, White, Jones, Trainor, Hammond, Douglas, Hirayama, Duke, Hearn, Scholtz and Fuailefau. This is arguably, the best group available, given injuries to...
CW Summer Touch
Touch rugby for allcomers has started up at The Park. Play commences at 5:30 on Mondays and 5:00 on Fridays. What a way to bookend your week! Newcomers of both genders welcome. No age restrictions......as we say at CW; "eight to eighty". Enjoy the fun. WINDSOR PARK...
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. ...
Visitors Take the Spoils
South Island Junior Tide Faced a Tough Irish Team in Youth Rugby Exhibition Match Victoria, BC – A great evening of intense and exciting Junior Tide rugby took place at Windsor Park Monday night. The Irish schoolboys from Down High School in Northern Ireland were as tough as expected,...
PRC's - Girls U16 Island Tsunami - Silver; Boys U15 Tide - Bronze
CW septet of lads that played on the team that defeated Vancouver North II for the third place today at the PRC's held at UBC. The Island Tsunami U16 Girls finished in second place after dropping their final to a very good Fraser Valley East team. Hats off to the Valley, as they also...
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...
Wednesday's, "Ruck & Maul" on Thursday!
FALL JUNIOR RUGBY CWRFC started preliminary planning for Fall age grade and mini programs for girls and boys for the coming season when twenty two interested folk met at The Temple to offer services for coaching and management of teams for the upcoming season. The meeting was led by...
Goings On @ C.W.
JUNIOR RUGBY Wednesday (TOMORROW) at 7:00 p.m. @ DSC there will be a gathering for parents of players in the club's Mini and Junior Rugby programs, (girls and boys). Specifically, the purpose of the gathering is to confirm (and add to) the coaching and management volunteers of our...
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...
Saturday in Sacremento
Saturday promises to be a barn-burner when the Eagles play The Maple Leafs. Perhaps a form line can be taken from recent scores vs the same opposition. Let's look at this. The Eagles lost to the Scots, 6 - 24 but pulled up their socks last week, narrowly losing to Japan 29 - 37, an eight...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
B.C. BEARS SUMMER LONG LIST & SOUTH AMERICA TOUR. C.W. offers special congratulations to Gord Kehoe and Jon Morris who will be travelling to Argentina this summer with the Bears. Keenan Horton was also selected but unfortunately, is in the middle of studies. Tricolor's, Kenny Goodland...