Ollie Nott packing down in the 5 man scrum wearing #8 helped the California based Rhinos to a perfect 5-0 record over the two days. They defeated the favoured London Royals in their final match, coming back at the whistle to score the winning try and add a two point conversion. One of the variations in the tournament is allowing conversion options varying from 1 to 5 points depending on the angle and distance.
courtesy of World Rugby
SCOTLAND v GEORGIA MURRAYFIELD KO 19:30 FRIDAY
Head to head:
Played 4 Scotland leads 4-0
Points for: Scotland 138 / Georgia 41
Average score: Scotland 34-10 Georgia
First met: 14 September, 2011 RWC 2011 Scotland 15-6 Georgia Invercargill, New Zealand
Last met: 6 September, 2019 Scotland 36-9 Georgia Murrayfield, Edinburgh
BC Rugby (BCRU) have revisited their interpretation of the viaSport “Progressively Loosen” phase and have now projected a “low-contact” version of rugby for January 2021. There’s no change to the “non-contact” club mandate for the rest of 2020.
from World Rugby
– Rugby World Cup 2021 Draw confirmed for 20 November 2020
– Draw event to be held at SkyCity Theatre in the heart of Auckland
– RWC 2021 Draw to be live streamed to global audiences via World Rugby digital channels
– World Rugby Womens Rankings to be used for first time to determine draw bandings for direct qualifiers
[ed. when we listed the 34 players from the BC Premier, we only listed each player once starting with the universities, then the clubs. Some players have played for more than one BC Premier club, for example, UVic players Doug Fraser, Jake Ilnicki have also played for CW and Liam Murray and Conor Keys have also played for James Bay.]
The men’s national team will bring together 36 domestic based players for a high performance camp in Langford, BC from from November 9th to 29th.
The Allianz Premier 15 league kicked off last weekend. There are 10 teams in the league, a number of them familiar to followers of the men’s English Premiership: Exeter, Harlequins, Sale, Worcester, Saracens, Bristol and Wasps. There’s also Loughborough, Gloucester-Hartpury and Darlington Mowden Park (DMP).
World Rugby announced 12 interim committees. They will initially serve for one year pending the completion of an independent governance review.
Bryan Kelly, the former Rugby Canada media person and now the Communication Manager for the region, Rugby Americas North, could barely contain his excitement. He tweeted out:
“Incredible #ThanksgivingSunday today playing in what could be the first full 15s game in Canada (TBC) since Covid-19 & my first match for @TarsRFC. Well done everyone on making it happen”
We’ve appended the respective articles from NZ and Australia rugby with rosters below. Some stats provided by World Rugby.
from World Rugby
World Rugby has announced the appointment of Joe Schmidt as the organisations Director of Rugby and High Performance.