Interview With Brian Moylett on His New Coaching Venture: Off-Field Rugby Coach
BCRN: Hi Brian, I understand you’ve started a new venture called The Off-Field Rugby Coach, could you give us an overview of the concept?
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Women’s National XVs – July 2021
Update and Photos from Women’s XVs West Camp
We dropped by the West camp on Sunday to watch the players go through their paces and have a light scrimmage.
We posted 35 photos on our other site at: http://nationalrugbynews.com/index.php/womens-xvs-western-camp-july-11-2021/.
Rugby in History
It’s a Try! The History of Rugby in Canada – 1100 Page Book That Covers Rugby in Canada From its Beginning
I had a chance to meet Doug Sturrock the other day and chat about history and rugby. He is the BCRU official historian and was author of the book “It’s a Try! The History of Rugby in Canada”.
MLR 2021 – Week 17
Week 17 Results: Wins for New York, DC, LA, Atlanta, New England and Seattle – Playoff Picture Set
There’s one week left in the MLR regular season but the playoff picture is already set. LA will go through as West winners and Utah as #2, Austin can’t catch either team and will finish 3rd.
World Rugby 7s Series – 2021
Canada to Open 2021 7s Series with Stops in Vancouver and Edmonton in September
from Rugby Canada
Rugby Canada is thrilled to confirm a unique opportunity for Canadian 7s fans with Canada being awarded the opportunity to host two HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series events in September. On-going work continues with governments, stakeholders and partners to receive final COVID -19 safety protocol approvals to ensure the safety of participants and attendees. These tournaments, if able to move forward, would mark the first Sevens Series events on Canadian soil since the HSBC Canada Sevens in Vancouver in March, 2020.
Canada v England July 2021
England Dominate Canada in Final July Test 70-14- Match Notes and Reflections
And so it begins. Off the kickoff Conor Keys receives the ball and gets rag dolled in the tackle by the England openside, Sam Underhill. Ben LeSage is first there but just can’t budge the loose forward, Corey Thomas arrives a bit later but the damage is done and it’s a penalty for holding on. This is a prime example of the importance of winning the contact areas and how it’s going to dictate the outcome of the match.
Rugby 7s at 2021 Olympics
Schedule Announced for Men’s and Women’s Olympic 7s
[ed. note Tokyo is 16 hours ahead of BC, times below are for Tokyo. A 9am start on Monday will be 5pm PT on Sunday.]
The schedules have been announced for the Rugby 7s events.
July Tests 2021
A Look at Weekend Results from the Americas 2023 RWC Potential Qualifiers: How Does Canada Compare?
What is the prognosis of Canada making it through the RWC 2023 qualifying process after the weekend action? It’s too early to tell but the weekend results didn’t alter the opinion held by many, and backed by the ranking statistics, that Canada are ranked 3rd in the Americas qualifying process. A 3rd place ranking in the Americas (Argentina excluded as they’ve qualified already) would mean the repechage again, a repeat of the 2019 RWC qualifying.
MLR 2021 – Week 16
Week 16 Wrapup: Wins for Toronto, San Diego, New England, New Orleans – Six Teams Remain in Running for Playoffs
With 2 weeks left there are 6 teams in the running for the 4 playoff spots. LA, Utah and Austin in the West and Atlanta, NOLA and NY in the East.
Canada v Wales July 2021
Canada Fall to Wales 68-12 (40-5 HT) – Match Notes
[ed. notes and reflections taken during the match]
Canada started well with a try at 4:20, how Canadian. Cooper Coats was the hero, taking a quick tap from a penalty, weaving through some defenders and finding an alert Ben LeSage in support who found Kainoa Lloyd on the outside with a perfect pass. Lloyd had some work to do as he got low and used his power to bounce of the defender. Peter Nelson gets a kudo as well for the clearance kick that had put Canada inside Wales 22 to start with. Two of the key players in that try don’t play MLR and haven’t recently played XVs on a regular basis in a league environment. Cooper Coats trains with the national 7s squad and Kainoa Lloyd with the Pacific Pride squad. The last time they showed up in regular competitive XVs was February 2020 when both were playing for James Bay in the BC Premier league, Coats playing #10 and Lloyd #13.