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BC's Recent Results; Women's World Cup this Week; Auckland Team in BC; Prince George Tournament; Australian Lass Looking to Play Rugby in BC
[ed. comments below, a reader rightly pointed out that the BC senior women have excelled in the summer.]
posted Aug 18 2010
A number of things to cover. First up BC. We recently got shellacked by the Prairies in the senior men’s competition. The score was 41-6 for the Wolf Pack over the Bears. That has to be about the worst result for the BC senior men... ever. People are asking why? A couple of points came to mind, the first one is attitude, here is a quote from a Rugby Canada article on the game: “While the B.C. Bears had a wealth of depth to choose from for the CRC, evident on their letting Cudmore move to the Prairies, James said he stayed true to the idea that the competition was for development purposes.” It’s nice to be so generous and if this competition is just about development and not about regional pride then fine, but don’t expect the fans to support it in a big way. BC rugby fans expect to win, so either it’s development for the national team and lets all go on with our summer holidays let us know when rugby starts in September or if it’s a serious competition and BC pride is at stake, then get serious starting at the coaching level and let others worry about the national development issues. It can’t be both ways, fans won’t buy into it. Talking of holidays brings me to my second point, when has a BC [senior men's] team done well in a summer competition? It’s 7s season here, players are resting and recuperating. Last year the CRC started September 12th for the Bears, their more traditional season and they won the competition. The Bears should hibernate from rugby in the summer, from all accounts they were half-asleep during the game in Calgary last weekend. The irony is we have a provincial coach happy to give top players away for development purposes but the national team coach isn't there to watch it, he's on holidays.
Next issue, the national championships, BC were zero in the Gold department, when did that last happen? And the U18 team were stuffed 43-13 not just beaten. Former coaches of the programs ask “what’s happening”. There seems to be a trend not only in BC but at the national level to put people in charge who are not results oriented. If I’m choosing a coach I’m looking for someone who has a proven record of winning and creating a winning culture, I don’t care how good the resume looks. But I seem to be in the minority. Look at the fiasco with Morgan Williams in the 7s where his positive on-field results in the end meant nothing. There seems to be an emerging trend of style over substance, if you can talk a good game, look good on paper then you really don’t have to produce the results.
U19 Women
Gold- Quebec
Silver-Ontario (1)
Bronze-British Columbia
U16 Men
Gold – Ontario
Silver – British Columbia (1)
Bronze – British Columbia (2)
U18 Men
Gold – Ontario
Silver – British Columbia
Bronze - Newfoundland
Women's World Cup
On a more positive note the Women's World Cup starts this week on Friday with Canada in Pool C taking on Scotland. Also in Canada's pool are Sweden and France. The pool winners advance to the final along with the best 2nd place team. Likely NZ will go through from Pool A, England from Pool B and Canada will have to defeat France to claim Pool C, otherwise rack up the points on Scotland and Sweden and hope for the best 2nd place result.
More on Wolfpacks - Prince George Tournament
Hello there!
The Prince George Rugby Club is holding our annual Wolfpack tournament on September 25 and 26th at Masich Place Stadium. We are trying to round up some interest, so we were wondering if you could put a link to the attached PDF on your website. We need responses from teams at least a week before the tournament to arrange tournament schedules. The contact email is unbcwrfc@gmail.com
Hopefully you can help us out!
Thank you!
Irene,
Secretary UNBC WRFC
Auckland Team on Tour to BC
There's an Auckland area club on tour to Vancouver and area next week. The College Rifles Rugby Club will be playing Kamloops on the 28th, Rowing Club on the 2nd, UBC on the 4th, Capilano on the 9th and Burnaby on the 11th. It's a young team with Under 19’s (8) Under 21’s (6) Senior 1’s (3) and Premiers (10).
Australian Lass Looking to Play Rugby in BC
Prefer to come to BC - looking to come anytime next year -preferable around June for minimum 6 months -am a Sports Teacher am happy to work in any industry though.
Work - Sports Teacher/anything
Rugby Experience - 8 years in the backs - 6 years at flyhalf for University of Queensland Women's Rugby Team, Queensland, Australia
Contact details - sarahrobins@live.com.au
Thanks for your help - any info/help you have would be great
Sarah Robins
More Photos from Abby 7s; Dog River Howlers Going to Cancun in November; Outdoor Charity Wrestling Event at Velox
[ed. comments below]
posted Aug 3 2010
Here are some more photos from the Abbotsford 7s event.
Judy Teasdale's Photos
Tim King's Photos #1
Tim King's Photos #2
Howlers in Cancun from Karl Fix
The Dog River Howlers are excited and proud to announce that joining their squad to defend their Cancun 7's championship will be the man who is considered the greatest rugby 7's player of all time - Fiji's Waisale Serevi.
The Howlers are offering a supporters tour package of $700 (per person double occupancy) which will include 4.5 star accommodations at an all inclusive beach front resort, transport to and from the hotel/playing pitch, related tournament social events, a trip to a Mayan village were the Howlers will conduct a kid's camp and of course Howlers tour gear. The first installment of $350 will be due on Sept.1 with the balance payable on Oct. 1, 2010.
You will be responsible to book and cover your own flights arriving there on Thursday November 18 afternoon/early evening and leaving again on Monday the 22nd. You of course have an option to extend your stay at this resort for $100 per day (double occupancy). Please indicate this to me so I can book accommodations accordingly.
Please email me at (karl_v_fix@hotmail.com) if you are interested in being part of this exciting and fun tour.
Charity Wrestling Event at Velox
Should be a good show and lots of fun for the family with an outdoor wrestling event featuring some top wrestling entertainers like the Honky Tonk man and Nelson Creed. Tickets are $20 for adults and U16 for $5. You can buy them at the gate or if you want to use your credit card just donate $20 per adult or $5 per U16 to BCRN using the Donate button on the right and we'll reserve tickets for you at the event. The event is August 14th at 4pm at Velox on Gordon Head Road near UVic.
U20 Action on the Island: Canada Classics in Calgary
posted June 26 2010
A couple of readers requested updates on these items so here goes.
U20 Island v Vancouver
The Rising Tide play their final game of the Dunbar series at S.M.U. tomorrow Sat. June 26, 1 P.M. vs Vancouver.
Canadian Classics
The Canadian Classics play against the USA Classic Eagles in Calgary on Saturday, July 10th at 4pm during Stampede.
Website: www.canadianrugbyclassics.com
They play at the Calgary Rugby Union, it’s the headliner for the Stampede 7’s.
Jamie Cudmore Makes Planet-Rugby's Heineken Cup XV; From SA to Mill Bay and Looking for Rugby: Dog River Howlers 7s to Feature in CFL Halftime Match
posted May 26 2010
Jamie Cudmore [thanks to a reader for sending this in]
From the Planet Rugby website:
HEC XV of 2009/10: 15 Clément Poitrenaud (Toulouse), 14 Tommy Bowe (Ospreys), 13 Brian O'Driscoll (Leinster), 12 Yannick Jauzion (Toulouse), 11 Chris Ashton (Northampton), 10 David Skrela (Toulouse), 9 Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz), 8 Jamie Heaslip (Leinster), 7 Thierry Dusautoir (Toulouse), 6 Imanol Harinordoquy (Biarritz), 5 Patricio Albacete (Toulouse), 4 Jamie Cudmore (Clermont), 3 Benoit Lecouls (Toulouse), 2 William Servat (Toulouse), 1 Soane Tong'uiha (Northampton).
Full Story on Planet Rugby website
From SA to Mill Bay
To Whom it may concern
I have recently immigrated to Vancouver Island (Mill Bay) from South Africa. I was wondering if you know of a place (pub/restaurant or if a group of people meet) in Victoria that would broadcast the super 14 rugby final this weekend. The tri-nation games are also coming up soon, I am thinking at this would be a great way for me to meet new people.
Regards
Justin Blumberg
Email: justin@rugsoriginal.co.za
Dog River Howlers 7s Feature in CFL Halftime Show [from Karl Fix]
[ed I wonder if this could be a record for the largest crowd to watch a 7s game in North America, certainly in Canada.]
In recognition of their "rugby football" roots the Saskatchewan Roughriders Football Club (http://www.saskriders.com/) of the Canadian Football League who are celebrating their 100th anniversary have kindly invited the Dog River Howlers RFC (facebook - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2426610840 ) to participate in a rugby 7's game against the local Prairie Fire RFC at the half time of their game against the BC Lions on June 13 here in Regina's Mosaic Stadium (Taylor Field) in front of an estimated sell out crowd of 30,000 fans.
Originally known as the Regina Rugby Club from 1910 to 1923, they changed their name to the Regina Roughriders in 1924 and finally to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1948.
The CFL's championship trophy the Grey Cup which was in 1909 donated by the then Governor General of Canada, Earl Grey, to recognize the top amateur rugby football team in Canada and was not officially signed over to the Canadian Football League by the Canadian Rugby Union until 1967.
United Midnight 7s Tournament; Women's Premier Burnaby v Meraloma Thursday Evening; Keeping In Touch with Rugby Parents
[ed. comments below except as noted]
posted April 29 2010
UNITED MIDNIGHT SEVENS RUGBY TOURNAMENT from Dave Pearcey
Kickoff to the Summer of Sevens!
Saturday June 12th, 2010
Burnaby Lake West Complex, Burnaby BC
6pm- 1:30am
$250/team OR $200/team if 2 or more teams from the same club enter
Mens and Womens Social Divisions
LIVE BAND! BEER GARDEN! RAFFLES! PRIZES!
To register:
email: stevi_s@hotmail.com
or
call: 604-787-7428
DEADLINE TO REGISTER is MAY 20th, 2010
Join our facebook group "United Midnight Sevens Tournament" for more details!
Please forward to all members of your club and anyone else who you think might be interested!
Women's Premier: Burnaby v Meralomas from Ian Trevor
A great match up between the Meralomas and Burnaby Lake will be taking place at UBC’s Wolfson field on Thursday night at 6:30pm. Both teams feature member’s of the World Cup bound National Senior Women’s Team, and with the Lomas looking to make up for a tough loss to the Caps on the weekend, this has all the earmarks of a tough match.
The non playing members of the NSWT will be there fundraising. For those of you who haven’t heard, the team has created a cookbook called:
“Nutritious and Delicious: The NSWT's Guide to Healthy and SCRUMcious On-the-Go Eating”.
The cookbook is $20, with full proceeds going back to the national Women’s program, except for a portion of the sales which are being donated to the Jenny Vincent Coaching Endowment for Women's Rugby.
See you at UBC!
Keeping in Touch with Rugby Parents
One of the interesting and rewarding parts of this job is hearing from the parents of players who come to BC to play in the Premier league. Over the years I've communicated with parents from Newfoundland to Alberta who want to follow their son's rugby career and check BCRN for match reports, photos and video clips. This is also a chance to thank the club scribes and our photographers for making that possible.
I recently received an email from one such parent in South Africa who follows his son's career in the BC Prems. Warren de Bruin who has played at the Currie Cup level in SA now plays for the Ravens and scored the winning try in the upset over UVic. His Dad wrote:
Rugby being a strange game. We can call the games as much as we can based on form no. of internationals... but on the day it counts for nothing.
“Winning is not everything... but wanting to is!”
Well done to the Ravens... great effort boys!
Very exciting to observe this wonderful game from a totally different perspective.
In the big picture the BC Premier has a small footprint in the rugby world but consider that we are being viewed from all areas of the globe and should continually strive to improve our product. Each club has a part in that through maintaining excellence in coaching, player development and recruitment.
Another high-profile player in BC this year was Dean Budd. He played at NPC and Super 14 level and has signed with Northland for next season. He's also playing for the NZ Barbarians when they take on the NZ Maori on June 12th. His Dad who is a Director of the Auckland Blues was in Victoria last week to watch his son play and observe the rugby culture. I'm optimistic after talking to him that we'll see more high level players coming from NZ to spend a year in the BC Prems.
So parents, always good to hear from you.
Victoria Hosts Successful High School Tournament; Rugby Canada Adds Another Staff Position; Women's Camp in Alberta Chill - Miss BC Yet?
[ed. comments below except as noted]
posted April 14 2010
Successful High School Tournament
Mark,
Wanted to thank you for posting the information about the Scrum Fest. I also want to thank Phil Ohl & his Spartan team for hosting a great tournament.
There were 29 teams in total participating over 3 days. It also had a national & international flavor with the teams from Calgary, USA & Australia.
As a coach at a school where we are re-building the rugby program the Fest is a great way to expose the players to rugby. They got 3-4 games in over the 3 days & watched a whole lot more.
The Rugby Canada camp on the Friday night was a highlight particularly for the out of town teams.
Again thanks for reporting on this but more so THANKS to Phil for the effort that has to go in to pull it off without a hitch.
Rae Roer
Spectrum Thunder Rugby
Spectrum and Somerset Team Photo - click to enlarge
Rugby Canada Adds Another Staff Position
The spending never stops at HQ as they’ve added the position of Fund Development Manager. The position presumably is targeted to bring more funds into Rugby Canada. I thought that was the job of the Marketing Director who now has been promoted to Director of Commercial Operations and has another staff member under him.
So looking at the 2010 budget they want to bring in $815K from General Marketing and Fundraising (subtract the $55k of donations) so basically $760K from Sponsorship, Dinners, Fishing Trips and a Golf Tournament (470K in sponsorship and 290K in fundraising). The budget also has the laudable goal of only spending $60K in doing so. Of course what the budget projection doesn't show is that they've just spent $50K (or whatever salary the new position carries) on top of the $60K to meet the budget figures.
Writing about Rugby Canada always makes me reflect on management theories. Here are a couple of examples:
The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."
Parkinson's Law is articulated by the adage "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It explains bureaucratic growth by two forces: (1) "An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals" and (2) "Officials make work for each other." Parkinson notes that the total of those employed inside a bureaucracy rises by 5-7% per year "irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done."
Women's Camp in Alberta Chill - Miss BC Yet?
A reader sent in this comment concerning the NSWT camp being held in Olds, Alberta just north of Calgary. The weather has been less than co-operative and many wondered why Alberta when many players are playing in the BC Women's Premier?
"Don't know if you have followed the madness. They got there it was snowing. Today a huge snow storm with more black outs in Alberta (watch the news tonight) and yesterday on Rugby Canada's web page they show a video of the girls training with gloves on and a frozen ROCK hard field with a little snow on it. What the hell are they doing holding it there when more than half are playing in BC at present, weather conditions, etc?? OH is it because the coach lives there and wants to go home every night?"
NZ High School Team on the Island; Imports on BC Prem Teams; NSWT Camp in Alberta Leaves BC Clubs Scrambling; Cowichan Development Machine
[ed. comments below]
posted March 31 2010
Napier Boys High School on the Island
Napier Boys High School of New Zealand (Napier is a twin city of Victoria) are on the Island this week. They are playing matches on Thursday against G.P. Vanier Secondary in Courtenay and are playing a Victoria Select Team at 1:00 on Friday at Windsor Park, made up of junior players from CW, JBAA and Velox, coached by Ken Goodland and organized by CW.
Imports on BC Premier Teams
A couple of readers forwarded on a document created by the BCRU, it seems the competition committee finally got together after the Olympics and cracked down on registration and import quotas and this is what resulted, a club by club inventory of imports.
Bayside 3 – 2 Fiji, 1UK
Burnaby 4 – 2 Fiji, 2 England
Capilano 5 – 1 Russia, 1 NZ, 1 Oz, 2 undeclared
Cowichan 1 – NZ
Castaway Wanderers 5 - 4 NZ, 1 SA
James Bay 1 – 1 USA
Meraloma 6 – 2 UK, 1 France, 1 Romania, 1 NZ, 1 Ireland
UBC Old Boys 5 – 2 NZ, 1 Wales, 1 SA, 1 England
Rowers 8 – 5 Ireland, 1 NZ, 1 Italy, 1 England
UBC 4 – 1 SA, 1 England, 1 USA, 1 Singapore
UVic None
Velox 3 – 1 NZ, 1 Wales, 1 Scotland
The limit and definition of an import is as follows:
13.1 Clubs are restricted to playing no more than three import players per team in any given game.
13.2.1 The classification of an import player shall be guided by iRB Regulation 8. To classify as a non-import, a player must be:
(a) born in Canada
(b) have one parent or grandparent born in Canada
(c) have completed thirty six consecutive months of Residence immediately preceding the time of playing.
NSWT Team Training in Alberta
The national women’s team is holding a camp in Alberta from April 8 to 18 and at least one BC Women’s Premier coach is not happy that players are missing two weeks of club games leading up to the playoffs. This is a common problem for men and women in World Cup years and there seems little co-ordination between the national and provincial programs in scheduling these events. Half of the players attending the camp in Alberta are playing in the BC Women’s Premier league which prompted another question from the reader, “why not hold the camp in BC”?
Here is the list of players attending the Alberta camp:
1. Marie-Eve Brindamour-Carignan Burnaby Lake Rugby Club
2. Andrea Burk Capilano RFC
3. Leslie Cripps, Captain London Saracens
4. Kim Donaldson Burnaby Lake Rugby Club
5. Marlene Donaldson Velox Valkyries
6. Gillian Florence Ste Anne de Bellevue RFC
7. Maria Gallo Burnaby Lake Rugby Club
8. Megan Gibbs Markham Irish Canadians
9. Brooke Hilditch Yeomen Women’s Rugby Club
10. Corinne Jacobsen Burnaby Lake Rugby Club
11. Heather Jaques Capilano RFC
12. Shannon Kane Velox Valkyries
13. Jennifer Kish TBA
14. Paige Knauf Velox Valkyries
15. Ashley MacDonald TBA
16. Mandy Marchak Capilano RFC
17. Lesley McKenzie Johnsonville RFC, NZ
18. Barbara Mervin Velox Valkyries
19. Heather Moyse TBA
20. Darcy Patterson Capilano RFC
21. Ashley Patzer Lethbridge Rugby Club
22. Cheryl Phillips Toronto Scottish
23. Danielle Rowlands Calgary Irish
24. Kelly Russel Toronto Nomads
25. Anna Schnell Burnaby Lake Rugby Club
26. Laura Stoughton Calgary Irish
27. Julia Sugawara Burnaby Lake Rugby Club
28. Sarah Ulmer London Saracens
29. Brittany Waters Meraloma Rugby Club
30. Julianne Zussman Town of Mount Royal RFC
Cowichan a Development Hotbed
A Cowichan reader sent in this link to a newspaper article From Cowichan to Canada
In all of Canada, only one rugby club has representation on all of the country's national junior teams this spring.
Oak Bay v SMUS Boot Game on Wednesday; RGC1404 in the News; USA 7s Asks for Feedback; A Look at Women Athletes and Funding
[ed. comments below]
posted March 2 2010
Boot Game
The annual "Boot Game" between Oak Bay and SMUS is this Wednesday at 5:00pm at Wallace Field. Tickets are $2.00 for students and $5.00 for adults.
They usually get a decent crowd, over 1,000 in 2008 and the players were thrilled to play in front of a crowd of that size. So get down there and support the future of rugby. Here is a link to the 2008 story on Canada.com.
RGC1404
Just so we don't forget our boys in North Wales here is a link to their game against the Sale Jets which is the Sale Sharks Academy team. The North Wales/Canada team won 31-14 with 8 Canadians in the squad. I understand some of the lads were up past curfew watching Canada take it to the USA in Olympic Hockey. You can take the Canuck out of Canada but you can't take Canada out of the Canuck.
USA 7s
I was very impressed that I received a feedback request from the USA 7s media people. Imagine wanting to find out what your customers think, what a novel idea. These people are class as was their treatment of the press and their media facilities, this event is going to grow in leaps and bounds. I've been to Twickenham and Millennium Stadium as press and this was just as professional albeit on a lot smaller scale. It completely blows out of the water anything I've experienced before in North America from a rugby media perspective.
Women Athletes and Funding
A reader sent in this article about funding or the lack of it for Women Athletes. It's written from an Olympic point of view but mentions rugby as well. One of the reasons is it's written by Stephen Hume of the Vancouver Sun who has deep rugby roots. His brother John (the smarter and better looking brother I might add) was the past president of the Velox Valhallians rugby club. OK I just added that last comment in parenthesis to get a free beer on Thursday night.
All joking aside it is a valid issue as the women continually outperform the men but receive a fraction of the funding.
Local Fundraiser for Mini-Rugby; Canadians in North Wales; Churchill Cup in USA Again
[ed. comments below]
posted Feb 23 2010
Kidsport and The Local Kitchen
Mark,
We are holding a fundraiser on March 21, 2010 with Kidsport being the beneficiary. More importantly Kidsport will allow us to specifically give the money to the Rock Solid Mini Rugby Jamboree, as it is a branch of the Kidsport umbrella. If you visit our website, details can be read by clicking The Local Kitchen's Dine and Dash Challenge located on our website www.thelocalkitchen.ca. This event will be a fantastic time if supported by the community.
Regards,
Pat Dunkley
RGC 1404
For those following the carded players in North Wales here is some information. RGC 1404 defeated Worcester Academy or Worcester A (they seem to use the term synonymously) by a score of 20-11. The last time these teams met at Parc Eirias (RGC 1404 home field) the Worcester A team won 72-3. That fact seems to indicate that Canada is indeed helping North Wales improve its rugby quality, the big question remains unanswered, is North Wales helping Canada improve its rugby quality. The answer no doubt this summer when Canada, for the first time, bolstered by the North Wales contingent will win the Churchill Cup. I bet Geraint is already working on the press release.
RGC 1410 match report
Worcester match report
Photographs - Philip Vaughan Rees [philreesphotography@yahoo.co.uk]
Churchilll Cup
Speaking of Churchill Cup, the pools and venues were announced yesterday. For the second year in the row, the tournament is being held exclusively south of the border. That’s a bit of a troubling trend from a Canadian perspective as there’s no explanation on the decision to hold it exclusively in the USA. Did Rugby Canada not want it, did the iRB mandate it, did the USA outbid us? I’ll fire off an email and see if I can get an answer. The tournament started in 2003 in Vancouver, then Alberta for two years, then shared between USA/Canada in 2006, then to England, back to a shared arrangement in 2008, and now exclusively held in the USA for 2009 and 2010.
Pool A
Canada
Uruguay
France A
Pool B
USA
Russia
England Saxons
Saturday June 5 - Infinity Park - Glendale, Colorado
Canada v Uruguay
USA v Russia
Wednesday June 9 - Infinity Park - Glendale, Colorado
England Saxons v Russia
France A v Uruguay
Sunday June 13 - Infinity Park - Glendale, Colorado
USA v England Saxons
Canada vs France A
Saturday June 19
Finals Day - Red Bull Arena - Harrison, New Jersey
Macquarie New 7s Sponsor; RGC 1404 Defeat Glamorgan; FVRU U17 defeat Canada U17; Cowichan Defeat Nanaimo; Lose Your Keys at 16th and Discovery?
posted Jan 31 2010
A few things to update readers on. Comments to editor@bcrugbynews.com
New 7s Sponsor
Rugby Canada is to announce a new 7s sponsor tomorrow and our intel indicates it's Macquarie Financial. They already have a sponsorship agreement with RC for age grade programs as announced in Feb 2009. Here is the link to that press release. Macquarie are an Australian company that have been operating in Canada since the late '90s. It would be nice to know exactly how much has being put into the age grade system since February or how much is involved in the 7s package. Is it a substantial amount or just an announcement with everyone patting themselves on the back but little money passing hands. Call me a cynic but I would like to know the numbers before applauding.
FVRU U17 Defeat Canada U17 [from Erin Ferguson]
Played before a crowd of about 250 people on a moderate spring day, oops warm winter day. The conditions were perfect with no rain and although the field was a little muddy both teams played some good wide open rugby. Canada scored first with a try but the FVRU battled back to win 19-18. Young scrum half Riley Locker (Bayside) had a spectacular day from the scrum half position for the FVRU.
RGC beat Glamorgan Wanderers 25 - 10
Here are some links with info:
Phil Rees Official Photographer to Gogledd Cymru
Glamorgan RFC Match Report
Cowichan Defeat Nanaimo 56-15 in Exhibition Match [from John James]
Exhibition match played today in Nanaimo
Cowichan 56 vs Nanaimo 15
Cowichan Scorers
Adam Shouten 2 Trys
Andrew Wood 2 Trys 2 converts
Gord Kehoe 1 Try 1 Convert
Kyle Geach 1 Try
Mike Roberts 1 Try
Dave Hitchcock 2 Trys
Dan James 1 Try
Lost Keys?
Hi Mark,
I'm just sending you an email because I found some keys on 16th and Discovery play fields where some rugby guys were playing. They seem like important keys (for important or hi-tech entry).
If you have any way to let the teams know that play out there, that would be great. Or, if you can forward this message to someone who can pass on the message, please do.
DTH Scores First Magner's League Try; Canadian 7s (Maple Leafs) Ready for Two Pool Games on Sunday in Uruguay
[ed. comments below]
posted January 2 2010
While the BC season waits for February to launch into full action there are some BC and former BC based players who are in the thick of rugby action. DTH van der Merwe scored his first Magners League try in Glasgow's 22-15 victory over Scottish rivals Edinburgh. The full report can be read on the BBC site.
Also the informal Canadian team known as the Maple Leafs and funded by local donations put through the Canadian Rugby Foundation is in Uruguay to play in the Punta del Este tournament starting tomorrow (January 3rd). If your spanish is good you'll be able to read the match updates at http://www.7punta.com/.
Canada has two pool games on Day 1 playing Carrasco Polo at 21:40 local time and then Toyota VII at midnight. Carrasco Polo is a local Uruguyan team and Toyota 7 look to be a Barbarian type team. Samoa won the tournament last year and will be the favourites again this year along with Argentina, Italy and Tonga. Canada should go through the pool rounds unscathed before meeting sterner opposition on Day 2.
Temperatures should hit a sunny high of 28C on Sunday with a more temperate 26C and rain on Monday for the finals.The evening start times will no doubt provide a more comfortable playing environment.
Abby Wins U19; RC Responds to Steve Bennett; Where is Ed Fairhurst; Bring Back the McKechnie Cup; New East Coast Correspondent for BCRN; DTH
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