Peter is on vacation this week so I’ll just do a run through on the leagues from Premier to U18. The scores and tables are on the PlayHQ system, that’s the system that BCRU and Rugby Canada have switched to this season. The BCRU tables aren’t always up to date, for example in men’s BC Premier they still have the Ravens at 14 points instead of 15, we keep an accurate men’s BC Premier table here. The PlayHQ system can be accessed here.
The early morning travels have started for the Senior Women from the Kamloops Rugby Club.
A 5:30 am meet up saw the Raiders load up and head to the South Surrey Athletic Park to go Shark hunting. The Bayside Sharks kicked off to the awaiting Raiders, and for the opening 5 minutes the two sides traded possession. This was due to a combination of great tackling from Kayla Comeau, jackling from Thea Flundra and poor execution at the hands of both squads.
It was a week of high scores, comebacks and one upset. We had four of the five winners picked, the spreads weren’t that close and one upset. In total there were 419 points scored over 5 matches with the average winning margin 37 points.
Week 4 has arrived before the Thanksgiving break on October 10th. There are three undefeated sides and the JBAA v Capilano match will be one of the highlights this week. Westshore visit Bayside, Ravens visit the Island to take on CW, Burnaby travel to the Lomas and the Rowers host UVic.
The BCRU have posted the 2026/27 schedules to PlayHQ, the new registration system. This is the schedule for the men’s Premier, there are 11 teams, 21 Rounds including bye weeks, each team plays 18 games, there are 99 matches in total. The season starts September 12, the winter break occurs between Round 11 on November 28th and Round 12 on January 16th, the regular season ends on April 10th.
During the season check the BCRU site for any last minute changes. We’ll also keep this post on the front page and updated with scores and standings.
It was one way traffic for most of the match as Canada ran in 15 tries and added 10 conversions. It was 52-6 at the half and Canada kept Namibia off the score sheet in the second half. There were a lot of positives from the match, Canada were winning the collisions, the off load game was working well and there is obviously some strike power in the starting back three as they scored seven tries. Perhaps the most satisfying is they kept Namibia out of the try zone, Namibia did have some possession inside the Canada 5 metres but strong team defence and some stellar individual defensive efforts kept Namibia from scoring a try.
The Kamloops Rugby Club Senior Women and Men kicked off their season this past weekend at Exhibition Park in Kamloops. There was moody skies to start the morning, but the clouds burnt off and provided a sunny and warm day for watching and playing rugby, which was welcomed by the many KRC Alumni out in support of the Senior Squads on Alumni Day.
There’s a certain amount of irony in posting about one of Canada’s greatest 7s players getting inducted into the Victoria Sports Hall of Fame a day after posting about Rugby Canada bringing someone over from Scotland to coach the Canada 7s team, but here we are. The induction ceremony is being held November 7th at the Victoria Ocean Pointe Resort, the HoF announcement is here, tickets can be purchased here. Phil not only had an outstanding career as a national team XVs and 7s player, a UVic and JBAA player, he had a remarkable record coaching. He led BC to a national title as a player/coach then went to the MLR and led the Seattle Seawolves to two back to back championships as a player/coach. He was part of the Rugby Canada coaching team first with the Pacific Pride academy then as Attack Coach with the senior XVs team. We’ve put a few photos from our archives below, also appended is the Greater Victoria Hall of Fame announcement.
High level rugby was on full display at UBC on Saturday as five national team players returning from defeating the USA in Japan split and filtered into both teams joining strong squads, with the Ravens featuring some recent UBC grads and UBC a few former Ravens’ juniors.
Here we go again, foreign coach hires foreign assistant coach. I feel bad for all the qualified Canadian coaches, and there are quite a few who could have filled this position. In the end it would be the decision of Stephen Meehan and who he wants as assistant XVs coach. The 7s coaching aspect is secondary, the Canadian team’s pathway to the Olympics is basically a straight line, win the RAN 7s and advance to the Olympics. The USA as host qualify, so Canada just have to defeat Mexico and the Caribbean nations. In 2025 Canada won the Rugby Americas North (RAN) 7s tournament at a trot scoring 225 points in total and conceding 14 with Christiaan Esterhuizen as coach. He was 7s coach, U20 coach and Pacific Pride coach at the same time.
Special thanks to Peter Muirhead for putting these standings together, the PlayHQ system that the BCRU uses is still not functioning properly. The PlayHQ system can be accessed here for match results, however tries and try bonus points are not working consistently on their system at the present time. The tables are ordered by Points per Game rather than total points. Photo by PJ Carr, UVic @ Burnaby.