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Monday's Musings
"Going, going, gone!" CW's Dinner is rapidly approaching and is 70% sold out. Today we bring you a few of the many auction items available on the evening. Last week, we outlined ALL of the terrific features of the Langara Lodge Fishing Adventure. Two night's stay at Middle Beach Lodge is...
Saturday's Doings - Where to Start?
Get your pipe and coffee for this diatribe! The weekend started with a ‘downer’. Sydney Sevens on day #1 and Canada drew a bagel. This outcome was particularly disappointing after an early brace of pretty good performances vs N.Z. and Australia, when the boys tanked in their day-end loss...
Sage Returns - Game Report
(This week’s game report sees a return of The Sage on the side.) Friday night at Westhills Stadium Turf Field….CW lads quickly found out that ‘’class was in session” vs U20 Canada…the exam day to test lessons learned will be coming next Saturday, same location Vs Capilano in the CDI Opener...
Monday's Musings
The Chaplain brings news of a good outing by The Mighty Thurds in the Hub City this past Sabbath. It was loss #2 but a close battle. Perhaps poor handling was a causal factor but plenty of positives from the exercise. With the “Saskatoonies” (Siz and Coop) and Queenie making their season...
Monday's Musings
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Hats off to a group of CW volunteers that assisted with the Victoria Christmas Truck Parade and its tour through the Oak Bay village. That’s the CW way folk and a Merry Christmas to you. CW’s Dylan ‘Diesel’ Jones is once again having some major health issues and...
BARNARD CUP REVIEW
Still surrounded by Vikes - Crossland's magic thwarted! This game report is brought to readers by one of the club’s two Premier Elite sponsors, the Penny Farthing Pub, the other being the Carson Automotive Group. Mine host, Matt Mc Neill, has been a major sponsor for the past decade minus a...
BARNARD CUP PREVIEW
A familiar scene from past games - surrounded by Vikes! CW heads to UVic for the second time this season and the third encounter with the undefeated Vikes, on Saturday. The Cup takes place at Wallace Field at 1:00 p.m. The Tricolours have announced their probable best available selection for...
Hats Off to Hydes
When Simon Ibell, suffering from a rare medical condition, was bullied in Grade 8, three people came to his aid at St. Michaels University School. They were Grade 12 basketball stars Steve Nash and Milan Uzelac, and coach Ian Hyde-Lay. Ibell and his family never forgot. In fact, Simon...
Triple Header for CW
Saturday's a Rugby Day for Ceedub, kicking off with the Premier Women playing an exhibition against UBC @ Windsor @ 11:00 a.m. Marlene Nedved @ #8 leads the side which features some very experienced players, a couple who have worn Canadian colors. Guarantee you will not be disappointed if you...
Monday's Musings - Students School Visitors
The events of Friday night put rugby into the far corners of our mind and we send our deepest sympathies to the families of those victims of yet another atrocity perpetrated by radicals. (Game reports, compliments of The Sage).Friday night there was also a game under the lights at...
Doing The Lite Fandango
CW will be introduced to Rugby By Lights tomorrow evening at UVic's Centennial Stadium, kicking off at 6:15 p.m. The coaches have managed to assemble a fairly strong combination which should give the students their sternest test so far this season. The Tricolours will see the return of...
Rugby Gods Give One Back
In the curtain-raiser yesterday at Windsor, the Velox were bolstered by a couple of players “coming down” and opened a worthy 14 – 7 lead over The Ones at the half. The insertion of Coach Winnie at the half was the stabilisation factor that kept scoring from either team taking place in the...
Westshore Velox Visits CW
Westshore is a club that is improving with every outing and will cause a shock before too long. At the Premier level they battled the Vikes fairly close last weekend and it took CW time and a good effort to overcome them last time round. The Velox are bolstered by some new names for...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul on Thursday!
Late with the blog...late with the reports! Very much after the fact, we bring you a report that CW U14 boys took a rather clinical "workshop" from a visiting Welsh team, Cyfarthfa High School, last Friday. From reports it seems rather challenging to fathom the age group parity but regardless,...
VIRU WOMEN'S FALL FINAL
The early play ebbed with positional advantage to Velox as their big pack ground out the yards. It was about fifteen minutes in when they forced their advantage and following three or four sequences, the fullback burst some twenty meters for opening blood, 7 – 0. The hosts were buoyed and...
R-E-S-PE-C-T
Where else but rugby? This photo has been all-over but we show it, just in case you have not seen it. There are very few other sports where two opponents have given their all in a crucial game and one, SBW, can console his opposite number, Jesse Kriel, after the NZ defeat of RSA last...
Monday's Musings
U14 Boys: CW welcomed JBAA to the VIRU Junior league yesterday in their first (ever?) age grade U14 match. This is the Bays first attempt at this age level as far back as can be remembered and no doubt, in traditional James Bay fashion, will grow into a force to be reckoned with. It is great...
Saturday's Scores
The table was set nicely by the Tricolour Women when they defeated Cowichan 38 – 17 in the VIRU semi-final but it was UVic that enjoyed the banquet after their Norsemen thumped The Ones 57 – 0 and the Vikes won the Premier game 36 – 22. The Cowichan/CW battle was arguably, closer than the...
Triple Header at Windsor
CW Women kick off the Island semi-final at 11:30 a.m.tomorrow at Windsor against Cowichan, a side they have beaten earlier in the season but the word is that the Cowichan side has bolstered its lineup and a close contest can be expected. The faithful have only been exposed to one home game...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
CW Boy’s Youth teams were in action this past weekend. The U16’s defeated an old nemesis from Vancouver, Bayside and the U18’s had a good 40 - 22 win, over Abbotsford. A good start to your season, lads. Irish International, Shannon Houston (with Anna Wray and Meagan Gibbs), recently...
Game Report - CW women vs Cowichan
Senior Womens - vs Cowichan - 48 - 5It was another solid performance by our new Women's team and we are starting to see some great synergies in the team. Cowichan is a strong team with solid runners in the forwards and back line that offered both direct and strong attacking lines and...
Monday's Musings
We start this week's article on the positive note especially on the verge of the start of the RWC (which will see high viewership from youth) and the kickoff for many club youth programs around the province. As professional sport is always front and centre in our news in North America, we...
Monday's Musings
BCRU AGM: The AGM has been and gone. We did a little digging and found it was rather poorly attended, e.g. only three VIRU clubs being represented in person; Fraser Valley having only one club represented in person and proxy votes being the order of the day. Not a great idea to have this...
Monday's Musings
Weekend Recap Canada’s DTH Van Der Merwe went seventy minutes with Glasgow Warriors (no bench-warming this week!) and pitched in with yet another tally in post-season, when they upset Munster 31 – 13 in the Final of the Pro12 League. DTH has scored two beauties in the playoffs and the...
CW TENS
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