The Island Tide v Ontario Blues match coming up Sunday at 4:15pm PT. Tide released their 28 player roster and Blues announced their 28 player travelling roster. Some interesting potential matchups.
1876 Where Rugby in BC Began: The Canteen Grounds in Esquimalt – Vancouver Island Rugby Union 150th Anniversary @JasonBeck82 @bcrugbyunion
BC Premier Finals Predictions & Rosters: Men’s Premier #1 Ravens vs #6 UVic; Women’s Premier #3 Thunderbirds vs #4 Westshore – Full Rosters All Divisions
Perth 7s 2025 – January 24-26
Canada Finish 4th at Perth 7s: In Pool with Australia, Brazil and Spain at Vancouver 7s in 26 Days
Canada finished 4th in Perth, their best finish of the season to date after finishing 8th and 5th in previous tournaments. Canada now sit in 5th place, 8 points behind USA and 2 points ahead of Japan with 3 tournaments left before the final.
BC Rugby Weekend of January 25th 2025
Spring Season Starts This Weekend in Men Div 1, 2, 3 and Womens Div 1, 2; Premier Starts Next Weekend
Rugby restarts this weekend in all divisions except Premier, which starts next weekend. The current standings going into the spring schedule are listed here.
MLR Updates – January 2025
Six Canadians in Fiji Drua vs LA Match This Evening; Seattle Seawolves vs Canada Selects Match Called Off; Archive of Seattle Seawolves vs Crimson Tide Match December 2018
A couple of MLR preseason news items that impact Canadian rugby fans. The LA franchise is in Fiji to play the Drua this evening, the team includes 6 Canadian players. Also the Seattle Seawolves match vs Canada Selects, scheduled for Feb. 7th has been called off, the Seawolves will play the local Seattle club side instead.
Editorial: Rugby Canada Damage Control, Out of Control
Rugby Canada and RugbyPass (Owned by World Rugby) Do Damage Control on Steve Meehan Hiring
The Steve Meehan hiring is basically old news, most Canadian rugby fans aren’t happy but they’ve moved on. Which is why it’s difficult to understand why RugbyPass posted a Rugby Canada explanation today (January 21st) that was extremely poorly presented and not very credible. It’s an Ai (artificial intelligence) voice reading a script to slides, it’s not very convincing.
Canada Women Historical List of Caps
List of Canada Women’s XVs Caps
There’s not a lot of published data on the number of women’s caps so we reached out to Liz Montroy, the Rugby Canada Communications Manager, and she sent this data. It will be updated with more information, such as match/date of first cap at a later date, but this is a good start.
Rugby Wrapup for Weekend of January 18th 2025
UBC Defeat #9 Ranked CWU, 16 Canadian Women in Round 14 of English Premier, Six Nations Starts January 31st – Schedule Posted
This is a rugby wrapup for the weekend of January 18th 2025. The BC Rugby leagues resume next weekend in most divisions except Premier which is February 1st. UBC toured down to Washington State for an exhibition match. The PWR, Premiership Women’s Rugby, in the UK wrapped up Round 14 with 16 Canadians in action. We have more details on those below. Coming up on the horizon is the Six Nations, and yes for members, we will putting them up for download, as we have since 2016. The Six Nations schedule is posted below.
BC Rugby League Standings – Start of Spring Season 2025
BC Rugby League Standings for Men’s Premier, Div 1, Div 2, Div 3, Women’s Premier, Div 1, Div 2
Thanks to Peter Muirhead who put together these league tables, they represent the league standings going into the spring season which starts next weekend, January 25th in most leagues, February 1st for the BC Premier.
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