Canada Name Team for Americas Rugby Trophy Matches in Brazil October 21 & 26

[ed. Rugby Canada’s press release mentions Gradyn Bowd affiliated with Old Glory DC of MLR, we don’t know if that’s new signing info or an RC error.]

Kingsley Jones has named the Canada ‘A’ team that heads to Brazil for the Americas Rugby Trophy. It brings in some new faces but it still gives Jones the option of fielding a fully capped team if he chooses. He’s well known for naming players to tours and then not including them in the match day rosters, so we’ll see what the rosters look like in the two matches before making a final evaluation.

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Americas Rugby Trophy Tournament Includes Brazil, Chile, Canada – October 16 to 26 in Brazil

An article on the Brazil Rugby Union site announced the Americas Rugby Trophy, a 3 country competition between Chile, Brazil and Canada. Canada will play Chile on Friday, October 21st and Brazil on Wednesday, October 26th. The announcement notes that the games are development in nature and that the matches will be basically “A” games and not capped.

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Canada Men’s XVs Autumn Tour – How is That Shaping Up

While many countries have released their test fixtures for the upcoming Autumn Tours, in Canada we’re left guessing and piecing together scraps of information from other sources.

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A Look at the Pacific Pride Roster for the 2022-23 BC Premier Season

The Pacific Pride Academy start up another season in the BC Premier, a few of the players (Reimer, Purdey, Flesch, ??) may only be here in the fall as they’ll likely go to MLR training camps in the spring.

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Canada Lose 45-28 to Uruguay (HT 33-7): Finish 3rd in Tournament

The bad news is Canada lost and finished 3rd behind Uruguay and Zimbabwe, the good news is they won the second half 21-12.

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Canada Defeat Chile 25-24 in U20 Tournament

Canada’s support play this match was a lot better, they didn’t leave as many players stranded but their scrum was under pressure for most of the match.

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Canada Lose to Zimbabwe in U20 Tournament 32-24 (HT 20-7)

A disappointing performance by Canada as a well drilled Zimbabwe U20 squad ran out to a 20-7 halftime lead and then weathered a Canadian comeback to close the game with two late tries and claim the win.

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Canada Name Team for International U20 Tournament Hosted by University of Guelph

Rugby Canada finally issued a press release on the tournament they’re hosting in nine days. They also named the Canada squad selected for the tournament.

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Canada End U18 Tournament with Loss to Netherlands 23-15: Player of Tournament USA’s Corbin Smith Has Canadian Connection

Canada lost their last match of the tournament to host Netherlands 23-15. The Netherlands went ahead early with a try and a penalty for an 8-0 lead. Canada replied with two tries for a 12-8 lead at the half. The teams exchanged penalties early in the second half for a 15-11 scoreline in Canada’s favour. The Netherlands closed out the game with two tries to win 23-15.

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Canada Lose to Spain 57-34: Questions Renew on Program Leadership Changes

It wasn’t pretty and the result renewed questions on when Canada are going to make changes to the leadership of the men’s program. The team look demoralized and the intensity of a test match was missing, especially in the first 40 when Canada absorbed a 40-13 pounding.

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