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CW's Ciaran Hearn Selected As NSMT XV's Player Of The Year
CW congratulates all of Rugby Canada's Award Winners, announced on Thursday at the Annual Awards Dinner, held this year at the Royal B.C. Museum. Without recognizing each individual, we give special mention to NSWT 7's P-O-Y, Jen Kish; NSWT 15's P-O-Y, Kelly Russell; NSMT 7's P-O-Y, John...
Road Warriors Define Their Own destiny
Tomorrow CW goes on the road to control its own destiny for the upcoming playoffs. A determined "second half" has put the boys in a position where they are not reliant on the outcomes of other matches. This being said, it is still not a "piece of cake" as to what the playoff picture may be. ...
A Game Of Two Halves
Stick to reporting, not prognosticating, a SMUS old boy told me on the phone this morning! 6.5 points and I would have lost my dough! Hats off to SMUS who had it in the bag by the half with a 23 - 0 lead. The Barbs came back with two converted late tallies - too little, too late. Final 23...
Classic Confrontation
It's all about an old boot that belonged to this man - some might say, a "Golden Boot" for that was exactly what it was on many an occasion. Gareth Rees, grad of SMUS, donated a "trophy" that has become emblamatic of arguably, the power of Victoria High Schools rugby, some years ago. ...
Welsh Rugby Demi-God Visits Victoria
Welsh Rugby Union's Board member and more famed Welsh National team and British Lions player, Gerald Davies, is visiting Victoria as key note speaker to the Rugby Canada AGM at Bear Mountain Westin Hotel over the next three days. Davies will also have the company of the CEO of...
One More Step
“Hard earned” was predicted and hard earned it was! For much of the day CW was out of synch and a determined Loma provided testy opposition. It looked like it might be easy when Mike Fuli almost “waltzed in” on the first attack but he stepped out of bounds. A seeming, almost complacency and...
Deserved Recognition
CW congratulates Dave Docherty and Bruce Howe who were recently recognised by U.Vic by being inducted into the Unviversity's Hall Of Fame. Apart from the long list of achievements and service to UVic and Canadian rugby as players, coaches, psychologists, exercise therapists etc., etc., the two...
The Ones Finish With a Flourish!
This match was a mere eight minutes old when Captain Chips put his stamp on proceedings, with a #8 pickup blind, feeding Conway for the score. Oliver made a good gainer and resultant penalty saw a quick tap and fast hands to Wolfie for a 10 – 0 lead. The forwards started to assert pressure and...
Monday's Ruck & Maul
Retina Ready We apologise to those supporters who view our site via Apple mediums, smart phone or IPads. Sometimes our photos will be “pixelated” due to a feature of Apple related to photo size that is not automatically a corrective feature of web sites, in lay terms, that is my best shot at...
Preview of Final Home Games
Tomorrow, the Lomas visit Windsor at the end of what must seem like a nightmare to current and former players of this long and storied sports club. Their demise this year has served notice to all clubs as to how fragile our existence at the Premier level might be. It would appear...
Wednesday's, "Ruck & Maul".
Standings coming out of last Saturday, sees CW having gained one point on Caps. As has been said, "a step at a time". This coming Saturday, Caps visit MacDonald Park whilst Lomas visit the House of Windsor. Focus on the game at hand will be the order of the day. CW's D.J. Sears...
We Are Fam-i-lee!
Noticed recently, after a Mighty Thurds contest, the above father/son duo – Kyle and Greg Armstrong. It piqued our interest about this young man from Ontario, Kyle Armstrong. We nabbed Kyle for a brief interview. Kyle started playing back in Grade 9. He moved to Victoria as one of the...
Vikes Vanquished
The opening ten minutes featured CW pressure from Barkwill, Tieds and Kleeberger but UVic ‘D’ held, UVic had runs from their backs but at twelve minutes it went terribly wrong when Dingwall pinched an overthrown line out ball from the students and fed Buckley, with Kleeberger on his shoulder...
CW U14 & U16 Host Tour from Cochrane, Alberta
CW U14 and U16 had a great opportunity to host a team from Cochrane. Alberta on Sunday in some fine Island weather that the Alberta lads savoured. The day started with a great 13 aside match for the U14s and continued with some sevens rugby for the older team. Both fixtures showed a great deal...
The Ones Play Spoiler
There was no sympathy offered by The Ones to UVic last Saturday, injury plight or not! Perhaps the final result did give a measure of revenge from a severe beating by the Norse back in November. The early stages ebbed and flowed but at the 25 minute mark, Henderson ran a tight line and fed...
Another Elite Eight Finish
Vs Australia. Only two minutes in when Mack stole ball and fed Trainor for the first score, (unconverted). The first half was ALL Canada. Early in the second stanza, a Canadian knock on provided the scoring reply for Oz, (converted). The half continued with advantage Canada. O'Toole came...
Canada 7's In Quarters Again
This reporter is certainly coming across as far from the sharpest tack in the box for Sevens news! Apologies to Nate Hirayama...AFTER viewing our own utube clip, we note that not only is he playing, he is playing with his customary acumen and point-scoring importance. Enough on this point! ...
Men Kick Off H.K. With A Win
Yak over the line! The men opened their Hong Kong campaign with a solid 35 - 7 victory over Portugal. Other singles were added by Trainor and White, with Moonlight getting a brace. Mack is back on duty, although it appears that Hearn and Hiriyama may be on the injured list. Next up...
Women Show The Way!
They've done it again! Kudos to Canada's Womens Sevens team on their victory in Hong Kong. The ladies defeated the Hosts, 19 - 5; Kazakhstan, 33-0; Japan, 38 - 0; and France, in the Final, 24 -0. Now that's an impressive record. Bouquets all round. (Ed. - We love Rick Bourne's...
Squads Announced
Most unfortunately, we will not see all of our grads in action on Saturday at Windsor. The biggest disappointment will be in the FRF where Thornber is injured and Bos is being kept out for the upcoming U20 RWC. Further, UVic is reported to be sporting a number of injuries. Last time these two...
Horse - trading???
This Saturday welcomes back to the House Of Windsor last year’s CW Player-Of-The-Year, Clayton “Burger” Thornber, Fergus Hall, Beau Parker, Joey Erlic, Mac Bos, Jeff Nishima, Luke McClosky, Evan Cambridge, Rhys Prevost and Morgan Tate ( and their cohorts) when the Vikes visit. These boys kicked...
Ruck & Maul
B.C. ELITE SEVENS The Thompson/Tate Troupe – BC Elite Youth Sevens (men), have arrived and shaken off the cobwebs in Hong Kong. This is a select U18 team and it will be their third visit to play concurrently, with the IRB Men’s Circuit Comp, in the Chartered Bank International Youth...
Ceedub Conquers Caps
Saturday last saw the season’s biggest crowd assembled to witness the season’s best display from The Prems – a comprehensive victory over Capilanos, by a score of 52 – 12. From the kickoff, Horton grubbered a loose ball from the ruck to score wide out. From the ensuing kickoff, Armstrong...