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Rugby Canada defeat USA Eagles in soggy Pacific Nations Cup opener
Canada’s long summer of rugby is off to a winning start. Playing in soggy, windy conditions at Edmonton’s Ellerslie Rugby Park, Canada did just a touch more than the Americans, emerging 16-9 winners....
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Rugby Canada names team to face Fiji for Pacific Nations Cup; Liam Underwood...
RUGBY CANADA VS FIJI – TWIN ELM RUGBY PARK, OTTAWA Wednesday, 3 pm PT, TV: Sportsnet World (delayed till 6 pm). Live at rugbycanada.ca A new pivot and centre pairing highlight Kieran Crowley’s second...
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Rugby Canada vs Fiji: Canadian player ratings
Player grades from Canada’s 20-18 IRB Pacific Nations Cup victory against Fiji on Wednesday in Ottawa. 1 Andrew Tiedemann – Struggled in the scrums and his defensive fitness was waning from the get-go...
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Rugby Canada names team to face the Kingdom of Tonga in final Pacific Nations...
Three games, three fly halves. Canadian coach Kieran Crowley is clearly looking to keep everybody fit ahead of the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow. Not to mention playing two tough tests in four days....
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Rugby Canada line up for Japan tilt has a veteran tone; enough for Pacific...
Lots of veterans throughout the lineup, but also lots of green in key spots. Call it Kieran Crowley’s biggest gamble of the season. Faced with a dense schedule of games in May and June, coupled with...
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Rugby Canada vs Japan: player ratings
With a kickoff time that their bodies told them was 6:10 a.m. ET, it shouldn’t surprise that Canada looked pretty sluggish in Nagoya. Add on a massive flight that limited them to just one team run the...
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Rugby Canada squad for Japan sees big names in but also big names out
BACKS: Nick Blevins (centre), Connor Braid (fly half), DTH Van der Merwe (outside centre/wing), Jeff Hassler (wing), Ciaran Hearn (outside centre), Harry Jones (utility), Phil Mack (scrum half), Gordon...
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The opposition: Highlights of Japan’s Rugby World Cup Qualifying win over...
Japan faced down Hong Kong a week ago in the finale of the Asian Five Nations. The Brave Blossoms face Canada to open the IRB Pacific Nations Cup this coming Saturday in Burnaby. The two teams came in...
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The Opposition: Japan, Rugby Canada’s next opponents, just beat Samoa
Japan is on a heck of a run. A year ago, they knocked off Wales. A year and a half ago they beat Georgia, in Tblisi. This is a team to be reckoned with. Now, they’ve defeated Samoa. A few caveats,...
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Rugby Canada unveils its new Under Armour look
Rugby Canada’s Tuesday presser was as much about showing off a new look as it was about giving Vancouver media a chance to talk with the likes of Kieran Crowley and Eddie Jones (more on that later)....
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Japan names strong team to face Canada in Pacific Nations Cup opener
FORWARDS 1. Masataka MIKAMI 2. Shota HORIE 3. Kensuke HATAKEYAMA 4. Hitoshi ONO 5. Luke THOMPSON 6. Justin IVES 7. Michael LEITCH (Captain) 8. Ryu Koliniasi HOLANI BACKS 9. Fumiaki TANAKA 10. Harumichi...
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Rugby Canada’s team to play Japan features one surprise and plenty of ‘yeps’
Rugby Canada has named its team for the Pacific Nations Cup-opening match on Saturday at Burnaby’s Swangard Stadium (6 p.m., TSN). Not many surprises here – with as many to players to choose from as he...
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Try and Tackle rugby podcast for June 5
Summer international season is upon us. Patrick Johnston talks with Kieran Crowley, Tyler Ardron and Eddie Jones to set up Canada vs Japan. Tom Mayenknecht of the Team 1040 Radio’s The Sport Market...
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Five questions with Rugby Canada’s Jamie Cudmore
Squamish native Jamie Cudmore – 6’5” but nicknamed ‘Cuddles’ – is a veteran of a decade in French rugby and is among Canada’s most famous rugby players. But his brother Daniel is at least as famous,...
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Rugby Canada vs Japan preview
Canada vs Japan (Pacific Nations Cup) Kickoff: 6pm, Swangard Stadium TV: TSN The Narrative: Pretty simple here: can Japan’s forwards compete with Canada’s meaty pack? Can Canada find a groove in the...
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Rugby Canada vs Japan: Four things we learned
Following from Saturday’s 34-25 win for Japan over Canada at Swangard Stadium, four things that we learned about the Canadian team… 1. The defence needs work. It goes without saying. Everyone saw it,...
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Try and Tackle rugby podcast for June 12
International season is fun, for players and especially for journalists. Canada struggled against Japan last weekend, but the challenges aren’t exactly trying. The scrum had troubles. The defence lost...
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Rugby Canada vs USA: Trying a few things out, Kieran Crowley mixes it up for...
CANADA vs USA (PACIFIC NATIONS CUP) BONNEY FIELD, SACRAMENTO KICKOFF: 3 p.m. PT (Live on TSN) It seems so odd that this is the final Canada game of the summer. Just as we were seeing them find a...
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