http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ Canadian Rugby Forums » Forum: General Discussion - Recent Posts en Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:19:33 +0000 http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/usa-vegas-7s#post-8728 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:24:57 +0000 cdnrugbyfan 8728@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Good luck to all the CDN teams participating in the LV Invitational tournament....and of course to the Senior CDN teams. We hope they both do great like last year in Vegas, and the men can build off the NZ 7s results this past weekend.</p> <p>Look for the sea of Red and White in the stands opposite the grandstand....lots of beer, sun, and great rugby!<br /> Hope to see you there.</p> <p>Go Canada Go !!! </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/sam-blanchet#post-8725 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:08:31 +0000 WeAreBrave 8725@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Former Canadian U-17 member (2009) Sam Blanchet will be on the bench for the Exeter Chiefs when they take on Bath this weekend in Anglo-Welsh Cup action. I&#39;m fairly certain that he as well as his brother Justin (who was also apart of the Canadian U17 team in &#39;09) have been seeing some playing time fairly consistently in the Aviva A League for &quot;Exeter United&quot;.</p> <p>So it&#39;s good to see some Canadian content in the higher leagues even if it is an Anglo-Welsh Cup match. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/merry-christmas-1#post-8672 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:36:37 +0000 Harry Craig 8672@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Same to you and everyone else on the forum. Hopefully a great new year for all in Canadian Rugby. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/merry-christmas-1#post-8670 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:03:48 +0000 winger14 8670@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Merry Christmas Everyone!</p> <p>Winger14 </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8658 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:42:00 +0000 Frank 8658@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Three class players that will help Canada when they play against the Tier three nations. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8646 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:57:22 +0000 Rjdck03 8646@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Jebb had hand surgery a few days back. Out for 10 weeks. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8643 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:59:25 +0000 Shameless Homer 8643@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Apparently not. Still not in the squad vs Racing Metro. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8641 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:28:10 +0000 BCLock 8641@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Good news for Jebb Sinclair?</p> <p><a href="http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3551_7384291,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3551_7384291,00.html</a> </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-christmas-carol-service-in-toronto#post-8640 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:58:29 +0000 Harry Craig 8640@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Good turnout, see you all next year. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-christmas-carol-service-in-toronto#post-8637 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:02:46 +0000 Harry Craig 8637@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Tomorrow night is it, hope to see you there. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8636 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:53:25 +0000 Shameless Homer 8636@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Sinclair is in 5 straight games, plays great, then they sign Ofisa Treviranus and he hasn&#39;t even made the bench since.</p> <p>I don&#39;t know what the passport situation is for the Pacific Islanders but I think Jebb may have become expendable. I hope he gets a fair shake because he&#39;s definitely show he can play, and stand out, at this level. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8635 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:18:56 +0000 BCLock 8635@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Yeah, it&#39;s obvious that the coaches don&#39;t favour O&#39;Toole, which is understandable, as he can be quite inconsistent. But like you said, Sinclair was starting at 8 for a while, and all of a sudden he disappeared. Just wondering why. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8633 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:44:36 +0000 rusty_lock 8633@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>I&#39;ve watched all of Sinclairs and O&#39;tooles games so far this year and Sinclair has been quite good and is probably just unlucky with the import rule not to be playing. I expect you will see a fair bit of him in the premiership this year especially once the teams start ram0ping up for six nations duty. Otoole was unremarkable in his debut and is going to need some injuries at the Osprey&#39;s to give him any more opportunity. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8632 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:58:52 +0000 RugbyFan99 8632@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Sinclair has been starting at 8 for the Irish. He started a few weeks in a row, but he&#39;s suffering now due to import rules. I think O&#39;Toole has had 1 start with Ospreys. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8631 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:57:56 +0000 BCLock 8631@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>What about Chauncey O&#39;Toole or Jebb Sinclair? Any news on them? </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8629 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:47:39 +0000 chabaleatschildren 8629@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>I will be at the Montellier match next week and though I haven&#39;t seen the lineups anounced I doubt he is gonna be on the list. I know MHR will be using their b-team like they last weekend since they are a small market team and have concentrated their resources on the Top 14 so he wont be missing much and I doubt they&#39;ll risk him for this match since MHR are already flying the white flag with regards to the H-cup. Pitty to since it started well leading Lienster untill the last 30 seconds of the first match when Remy Martin became overlly assertive. Speaking of which....<br /> Cudmore didn&#39;t come here either this year, due to... excessive Cudmorism in a previous match. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8627 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:45:15 +0000 RugbyFan99 8627@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.glasgowwarriors.org/content/view/5025/2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.glasgowwarriors.org/content/view/5025/2/</a> </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8626 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:26:06 +0000 BCLock 8626@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>He injured his shoulder in the world cup, had surgery on it and is now in recovery. I&#39;m not sure when he&#39;ll be back. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/dth#post-8625 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:55:08 +0000 cdnrugbyfan 8625@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Where is DTH these days? I noticed Glasgow beat Montpellier this weekend, but his name wasn&#39;t on the roster.</p> <p>Is he injured? </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-christmas-carol-service-in-toronto#post-8621 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:31:47 +0000 Harry Craig 8621@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>The 38th Rugby Christmas Carol Service will be held next Friday, December 16 at 7:30 pm at St Andrews Church at the Corner of King St and Simcoe St just steps from St Andrews subway stop and less than a ten minute walk from Union Station for Go train users. All are welcome to this event and to drinks and food before and after are available at the Elephant and Castle pub across the intersection from the church. Always a good time, love to see you there. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-scoring-points#post-8599 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:09:59 +0000 Harry Craig 8599@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>I was at twelve games and found them all very entertaining. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-scoring-points#post-8592 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:45:49 +0000 side_step 8592@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Depends on your definition of entertaining... last RWC was plenty entertaining to me. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-scoring-points#post-8587 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:33:40 +0000 Harry Craig 8587@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Just make the peanlty worth 10 points and no one will offend. End of problem. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-scoring-points#post-8584 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:13:34 +0000 growapair 8584@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>They&#39;ve already done it. It&#39;s called American Football. And you can watch it every Sunday on television, if you&#39;re so inclined.</p> <p>I understand they can also make forward passes. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-scoring-points#post-8580 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:38:39 +0000 Popo 8580@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>My question is when does it stop. Tri&#39;s have gone from 3 points to 4 points to 5 points now a proposed 6 points?</p> <p>My impression of the games at WC were that they were entertaining, and played very well. </p> <p>I do not believe a changing of the points is warranted as there will be other consequences that will be negative. With lower points for penalties I can see teams looking to commit fouls on a more regular basis as the penalty is not as punitive. With teams potentially taking steps to kill the ball, etc on a more deliberate and continuous basis... I can see the game being slowed down rather than sped up. I could also see the play become more disjointed with increased amounts of penalties and much continuity lost as ball is killed and slowed by defending teams. </p> <p>The game should be left alone it pretty entertaining as is. </p> <p>If you want to increase the pace of the game eliminate lifting from the line outs. Props would save an abundance of energy that could be used for running around the park. </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-scoring-points#post-8579 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:29:53 +0000 irishlock 8579@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>I understand where you are trying to go with that. My main concern of going down this route is as follows. If inside your 22 and under threat there is much less dissinsetive to not commit a breach of the laws. Why not just give up the 2 points? Even if they kick to the corner you&#39;ve taken a situation where you are scrambling around in defense to one where you defense is set. Beside that having a set piece in the corner is hardly &#39;running&#39; rugby.</p> <p>I think we see far more counter attacking now than under the ELV&#39;s and actually like the way the game is being played. Look at the last 4 teams in the World Cup : all have a reputation of trying to keep the ball in hand. Usually in the next cycle other teams try and emulate what worked for the previously successful team(s). </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-scoring-points#post-8578 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:33:35 +0000 cdnrugbyfan 8578@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>There was an interesting article on PlanetRugby lately about changing the points for the different methods of scoring in rugby games. It would appear to me that there is an awful lot of kicking away possession for territorial advantage.....instead of running rugby, ball in hand. The result is that teams are &quot;going for goal&quot; and taking penalty kicks much more frequently than say kicking for the corner and going for tries.</p> <p>Do you think the current point allocations are good for the game of rugby? If not, what would you change to improve the game from a spectators point of view?</p> <p>For me:<br /> Try 6 pts<br /> Conversion 1pt<br /> Penalty Kick 2pts<br /> Drop-Goal 3pts.</p> <p>I think the fact that teams would have to kick 3 penalties to match one try would benefit the teams that keep ball in hand.....and ideally, make the game more entertaining.</p> <p>Your thoughts? </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/wheres-my-name#post-8574 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:36:31 +0000 shack 8574@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>I just finished reading the article on the RC web site title &quot;John names mix of youth and Experience&quot; It was a good read and interesting to see who was selected but I didn&#39;t quite understand the point of the piece at the bottom of the article titled &quot; Players not considered for selection:&quot; where they list the name and then in brackets the reason they weren&#39;t selected. Why wasn&#39;t my name listed there with bracket(Too old and never was good enough!) Just wondering </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/rugby-books-for-sale#post-8472 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:05:00 +0000 rugby books 8472@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <p>Teichmann, G., and C. Griffiths. (2000). For the Record. Jonathan Ball Publishers. *Paperback. Very good condition.<br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1868420981/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1868420981/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books</a></p> <p>Howitt, B. (2000). The Roar of the Crowd: New Zealand Rugby&#39;s Greatest Players, Magical Games and Memorable Moments. Penguin. *Paperback. Very good condition.<br /> <a href="http://www.qbd.com.au/product/9780140288674-The_Roar_Of_The_Crowd_by_Bob_Howitt.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.qbd.com.au/product/9780140288674-The_Roar_Of_The_Crowd_by_Bob_Howitt.htm</a></p> <p>Shirley, J. (1999). Blood &amp; Thunder: The Unofficial Biography of Jonah Lomu. Harper Collins. *Paperback. Very good condition.<br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0002740656/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0002740656/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&amp;n=283155&amp;s=books</a> </p> http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/france#post-8452 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:39:30 +0000 Harry Craig 8452@http://canadianrugby.ca/forums/ <blockquote><p><cite>PALADIN <a href="//canadianrugby.ca/forums/topic/france#post-8352&quot;">said</a>:</cite><br /> The mark of a Great team is that they find a way to Win<br /> even when they do not play well. WELL DONE NZ!!<br /> For me, the story of World Cup 2011 was:<br /> &quot;Good Goal Kicking or Lack of It&quot;.<br /> Coaches,at all levels, should learn from this.<br /> When you select your team, Pick your Best Kicker first! </p></blockquote> <p>Weepu was their best kicker after Carter went down and where did that get them. Same with England and Jonny. </p>