Rugby Club
CW Wants You!
First Call for volunteers from Events Coordinator, Lucy Barwin. November 24th - Oak Bay Light Up; December 7th- Truck Parade If you can help, contact Lucy ...
Young Guns Lead The Way
A feast of rugby takes place tomorrow. It all starts at 10:00 a.m. PST when Canada plays NZ Maori in Toronto. Unfortunately, at this late stage, we are still unable to procure a starting XV for the Maple Leafs but we know for sure there will be some Tricolor connections involved. We wish...
Ravens Review
The Ravens kicked it up a notch last Saturday when they pasted their cross-town rivals, the Lomas 49 - 0, serving notice to all and sundry that they are a squad to be reckoned with this season. The Ravens and Ceedub have had many a good battle over the years, often with results going against...
NACRA Sevens Squad Announced
CW ("ex") and Toronto Nomad, Lucas Hammond (Ed. - Aplogies to Lucas, as we hear he has transferred to UVic this season), has been announced as Captain of the Canadian team to play in the upcoming North American Caribbean Rugby Association Sevens, to be held in the Caymans on November 9,10. ...
They Came - They Conquered.
Visiting Burnaby Lake had lots to prove to themselves, rather than the locally assembled sparse crowd, including a large visiting contingent. There was a time when the House of Windsor was an afeared venue. This certainly has not been the case the past two weekends. In the curtain raiser...
Unsung Hero - Off The Field
Some 25+ years ago, the Vancouver Island Refs Society insisted (via way of a club fine), that clubs rope their fields - an innovation at the time. This reminisce brings us to John Morley! John started his rugby as a "late starter", around twenty, in the U.K. He was a spare for his soccer...
Rugby Extravaganza This Weekend
CW will be fielding a record ten teams on the pitch this Saturday and Sunday, from Minis to Senior Men. Saturday competition sees a change of time when the Ones play JBAA @ 11:30 a.m. and Premier action kicks off at 1:00 p.m. The First Divies have some work to do to make up for what might...
Referee News
CW offers kudos to Chris Assmus who has just been appointed to two full Internationals; Uruguay Vs Spain and U.S.A. Vs N.Z. Maori, both games taking place next month. This is a real coup for the young 24 year old B.C. ref. Chris refereed in England and Wales in the early spring and...
Around The League
The BCRU Premiership League gets underway this afternoon. Let's start with CW. The Tricolors travel to Klahanie to take on the Caps, always tough at home. Caps had a tough game last week last week with a narrow two point loss to Burnaby. CW is slowly mustering the troops. There is a hint...
Unsung Hero - Off The Field
Who lines our field rain, hail or shine, midweek, weekends? Who completes the program layout and ensures weekly roster inserts get to the printers on time? Who assists with the website and its associated graphics? Who designs posters and brochures for Mini and Girls Rugby promotion? ...
Unsung Hero - On The Field
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. In what has been a particularly rocky start to the season, certain individuals have stood out. Over the next couple of weeks, we will recognize some of these "Unsung Heroes". The first is Gord Kehoe. Gord's hometown is Alliston, Ontario, where he entered...
Numbers Belie Tale Of The Tape
Excitement is in the rugby air as another CDI season kicks off. The state of the CW Nation appears hale with 58 senior men registered. These numbers are every bit as healthy as the past three seasons, yet it is a problem that the club is having to field two senior teams. CW is struggling to...
Fruitless Trek Crosstown
In horrendous weather conditions, CW dropped a pair of results to James Bay yesterday. The Ones found themselves down 10 - 18 at the interval and failed to make any inroads in the second stanza, losing 17 - 33. The Prems had a plot that could have and some might say, should have, succeeded...
Inclement Weather Cancels A Great Day
The day that might have been......GREAT! Most unfortunately, Windsor Park has significant standing water late this afternoon and all rugby fixtures that had been planned for tomorrow - minis, girls and age grade boys and youth are cancelled. The forecast for tomorrow is .....much of the...
Old School Values Come To The Fore
At practise last night an oleo of talent worked hard, ranging The Park. Players will need to exhibit the value of selflessness before the starting XV is jig-sawed to take the pitch on Saturday. Loyalty to the Tricolor and pride of performance will be much needed values as players will...
Age Grade Action All Day!
Sunday - Games On!! Windsor Park will be bursting at the seams this coming Sunday with age grade action. Minis kick off at 10:00 a.m. followed by U14's taking on Cowichan at 11:30. At 1:00 p.m. the U16 boys host Cowichan and the U18's open their season against Cowichan at 2:30 p.m. ...
That Other Code
This time last year, our site was all agog with the news that CW and NSMT's player, Mike Pyke was playing in the Australian Rules Football Grand Final. Not only was Mike playing, he featured predominantly and was feted widely in The Land Downunder when his Sydney Swans won the title. One...
Ro 'Bud' Hindson Added To Hall Of Fame
CW is very happy to announce that Ro Hindson, of the former unamalgamated Castaway RFC was inducted to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame last week. Hindson who played his rugby with UVic, UBC, UBCOB and a lengthy stint with Castaways, still has a strong affinity with CW RFC. His blond flowing...
CW U14's At Comox Kickers Jamboree
CW U14s set their alarm clocks Saturday night for an early Sunday morning drive up to Cumberland as the Comox Valley Kicker’s Rugby club hosted a Jamboree to commemorate the club’s 125th year. Upon arrival in Cumberland, we were greeted with bucketting rains. After huddling under a roof near...
Students School Hosts
A case of "all tied up and nowhere to go" UVic visited Windsor Park yesterday and gave a clinic to the Hosts, winning the curtain-raiser 53 - 0 and taking the main game 45 - 10. "Scores perhaps did not accurately reflect the extended periods of possession by CW. Unfortunately, The...
Blue Collar Bunch Take Over
This Saturday, Doug Tate brings a solid group of Vikes to Windsor Park. The Vikes appear to be a stronger combination on paper than that XV that took JBA apart last week. It is a group that could include as many five or six "grads" from CW's Junior and Mini ranks however, it is just a duet,...
CW's Kleeberger and Fuailefau Join Bears For Final Fling
Looks like Fuli and Zac could be on opposite sides of the ball on Saturday! Adam Kleeberger and Mike Fuailefau have been selected for the Bears as they take to the road for a hoped for, measure of respectability, this weekend. The Bears ( 1 & 3) play the Prairie Wolf Pack (2 & 2) in...
U14's Open The Season
CW hosted Shawnigan Lake School U14's yesterday at The Park. The session was "developmental" in substance. All the boys worked in skills stations before partaking in a "friendly" scrimmage. This was a good opportunity for some of the "new" U14's (12 yr olds) to try their skills on the...
Recapping The Weekend
Scotty ('The Bus') Franklin, on the rampage at Gordon Head. Relishing his return to #8, Scott had a solid game, being named MoM. (Game photos posted - credits, Ron Willems.) The two matches at Gordon Head produced somewhat stereotyped results, with CW opening up big leads and the home...
Donors Top Double Digits
Former Junior, Ben Lawless, back in town, all the way from Fort McMurray, gives his pint of claret! Lucy reports that donors reached and extended well beyond double digits over the weekend. There is a large contingent of NSMT players giving tomorrow and we remind folk that the drive concludes...