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Canada v France A

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  2. rusty_lock
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    Just found this online.

    This is the traveling roster for France A for the churchill cup.

    ARIAS Julien (Stade français Paris)
    AUDRIN Yohan (Castres O)
    BAIOCCO Clément (Racing Métro 92)
    BATTUT Antoine (US Montauban)
    BEAUXIS Lionel (Stade français Paris)
    CABANNES Romain (Castres Olympique)
    CAZENAVE Florian (USA Perpignan)
    CHAVANCY Henri (Racing Métro 92)
    CHOULY Damien (USA Perpignan)
    DUPUY Julien (Stade français Paris)
    FAURE Florian (Biarritz OPB)
    FORESTIER Yannick (Castres O)
    GENEVOIS Jean-Philippe (CS Bourgoin-Jallieu)
    KAYSER Benjamin (Stade Français Paris)
    MAESTRI Yoann (Stade toulousain)
    MAZARS Lionel (Aviron Bayonnais)
    MEDARD Maxime (Stade toulousain)
    NICOLAS Sylvain (CS Bourgoin-Jallieu)
    PEREZ Jean-Pierre (USA Perpignan)
    PLANTE Adrien (USA Perpignan)
    SCHUSTER Jérôme (USA Perpignan)
    SLIMANI Rabah (Stade français Paris)
    SUTA Joselino (RC Toulon)
    THIERY Benjamin (Montpellier HRC)
    VILACECA Guillaume (USA Perpignan)
    WISNIEWSKI Jonathan (Racing-Métro 92)

    That is one strong looking lineup

    Going to be pretty tough in the second game

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  4. Drew4
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    With the huge amounts of rugby going on right now, and with the Footy World Cup starting on Friday I treated myself by ordering Satanta sports. After watching the Canada/Uruguay game I agree with everyone that it was pretty solid display of attacking rugby. Stand outs for me were Menser-Coker, MacKenzie, and Tait. It was good to see all of the lads come off the bench to make an impact, Dala looked dangerous (minus the fact that he cant tackle). People on this post have talked about Dala playing in the centres, and Gareth Rees even brought that up during the broadcast. Dala, a natural fly-half should be given a shot at inside centre, so here is my starting 15 vs France A

    1.Tiedemann
    2.Riordan
    3.Marshall (looked good against Uruguay)
    4.Tait
    5.Hotson
    6.O'Toole
    7.Kleeberger
    8.Carpenter

    9.White
    10.Monro
    11.Mensah-Coker
    12.Dala
    13.MacKenzie
    14.DTH
    15.Pritchard or Evans

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  6. Harry Craig
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    Canada beats Urugauy by a bigger score than France. 48-6 vs 43-10. Does this make us 9 poits better than France. I doubt it but I hope so.

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  8. CanNZ
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    the Canadian team to face France 'A' is:

    15. Matt Evans (Newport Gwent Dragons)
    14. Ciaran Hearn (The Rock)
    13. DTH van der Merwe (Glasgow Warriors)
    12. Phil Mackenzie (Esher)
    11. Justin Mensah-Coker (un-attached)
    10. Ander Monro (Ontario Blues)
    9. Sean White (BC Bears)

    8. Aaron Carpenter (Un-attached)
    7. Adam Kleeberger (Rotherham)
    6. Chauncey O'Toole (The Rock)
    5. Brian Erichsen (BC Bears)
    4. Luke Tait (Un-attached)
    3. Andrew Tiedemann (Prairie Wolf Pack)
    2. Pat Riordan (c) (BC Bears)
    1. Doug Wooldridge (Ontario Blues)

    Replacements:
    16. Ryan Hamilton (BC Bears)
    17. Tom Doelzel (Prairie Wolf Pack)
    18. Jason Marshall (BC Bears)
    19. Luke Cudmore (BC Bears)
    20. Nanyak Dala (Prairie Wolf Pack)
    21. Eric Wilson (BC Bears)
    22. James Pritchard (Bedford RFC)

    http://www.churchillcuprugby.net/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clie ntid=3731&leagueid=0&page=45082

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  10. rusty_lock
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    Intereting the swap of Evans and Pritchard. I'm wondering if Pritch is still suffering a little from that knock to the mellon he took against Uruguay. He definately was off the mark after that point. I'm surprised Woolridge gets the start over Marshall. He was definately under the cosh last week and things seemed to settle down after Marshall came in at loosehead.

    After watching the France Uruguay match i'm actually a little more hopeful. If the boys can just eliminate some of those handling errors things might not be as rough as I first anticipated. No lineup from France yet but I suspect it will be stronger. Last weeks did not include Medard and was probably a little weaker than what we will see Sunday.

    Go Canada go

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  12. bisquit
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    Rusty-"I'm surprised Woolridge gets the start over Marshall. He was definately under the cosh last week and things seemed to settle down after Marshall came in at loosehead."

    I'm surprised you don't know what side of the scrum is which. Marshall came in at Tighthead for Tiedman.
    The scrum was more stable at that point but that may be down to the exit of one of the worlds best scrummagers Pablo Lemoine around the same time.
    Think the boys will be in tough against whoever plays for France.

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  14. RugbyFan99
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    16-10 France at the half.

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  16. rusty_lock
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    19-16 49 min

    boys have been great!!!!!

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  18. rusty_lock
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    mensah coker to munro to dth to evans and a sublime try!!!!!

    23-19

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  20. RugbyFan99
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    33-27 Canada wins!!!!

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  21. Drew4
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    GO CANADA!

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  22. rusty_lock
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    absolutely stellar win. across the park the heart was incredible.!!!

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  23. winger14
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    Wow! What a great effort! Looks like all the Crowley and JMC haters out there may have to eat a little crow. We have been steadily improving and I hope we can keep this up. This'll set a few IRB tongues wagging...

    Great result and Congrats to Canada!

    Winger14

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  24. Faust
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    Still need work on the scrums. Great effort and wave after of men hitting on defense.

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  25. SaskRugger
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    The Scrum needs a lot of work and the Saxons will be opting to scrum at every opportunity. We really have a lot more flair than the days when Sluggo was in charge, you can definitely see the Kiwi influence. This was as good a game as I have seen from Canada in many years.

    By the way, did anyone else laugh when the camera panned to Dolezel's arse? Got a chuckle there...

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  26. Harry Craig
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    Well done Canada. Haven't see the game but it doesn't suprise that they won.

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  27. Moosehead
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    YES! What an exciting game to watch. Well done Canada on a much deserved win and incredible performance. So much effort out there and some impressive trys. I have never seen such an impressive performance from an offensive and defensive point of view.

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  28. Harry Craig
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    Harry Craig said:
    Canada beats Urugauy by a bigger score than France. 48-6 vs 43-10. Does this make us 9 points better than France. I doubt it but I hope so.

    Well I was right we weren't 9 points better but I'll take a 6 point win happily.

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  29. trueviking
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    our scrums are always crap...uraguay manhandled us.

    great game though....excellent to see so much ball in hand...the kick and chase days even against superior opposition seem to be behind us.

    amazing result.

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  30. winger14
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    I think the scrum for us is always going to be a problem until we can get enough tight 5 guys playing at a professional level against professional level opponents.

    Just out of curiosity, from a pack perspective how do we measure up size wise to the top teams?

    Winger14

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  31. Great result Canada - do it again to France in RWC 2011

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  32. Faust
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    winger14 said:
    I think the scrum for us is always going to be a problem until we can get enough tight 5 guys playing at a professional level against professional level opponents.

    Just out of curiosity, from a pack perspective how do we measure up size wise to the top teams?

    Winger14

    Disagree a bit. Tkachuk is playing with Glasgow and he really does not make a huge difference. I think it is the fact that they do not play together as a tight 5 against top calibre as much as they should be.

    One thing, I think RC1404 went well, because not only did they play a higher level of Rugby in Wales, but they played together.

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  33. maverick
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    Crowley gave an excellent talk last year at the BC Coaching clinic where he laid out the challenges faced by the Canadian team. Number 1 on his list was size; to paraphrase, he insisted that our players are now just as fit, have as a good understanding of their defensive structure as any team in the world, do, in fact, have an ability to run with the ball, but size, especially in the pack is a clear seperator between us and the tier one nations. He had a chart that compared pack weights from the 2008 november tour, and our pack was outweighed by as much as 100 kg (vs wales in that case) - if you prefer, on the order of 25lbs per player. Some time together working on technique will make some difference, but it doesn't make our props or our locks 15kg heavier.

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  34. winger14
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    Yeah...forgot about that! Too true.

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  35. SnailSprinter
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    Geez! The french fans on the forum of Rugbyrama.fr are quite upset. they were happy for us but they complain mostly about the refereing and the lack of preparation of the Equipe A. The team could have been too sure of winning, apparently! The fans couldn't figure that a lost was possible, oh..they were unhappy but mind you, they were polite.
    That remind me of the first lost at the beginning of the Canada-Soviet Union serie in 1972.
    Bravo à toute l'équipe.

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