Thursday, May 19, 2011

Emirates Airlines London 7s Kickoff Saturday

A whopping 90,000 tickets sold for this weekend's sevens event, which is the 7th stop in the HSBC Sevens World Series.  The following weekend has Scotland hosting the event for the final event of the World Series.

Canada will play at both of these events.  On Saturday the first game Canada sees will be against Australia.  Samoa and Scotland are the other members of the Pool Canada are in.  Canada I feel will do well against Australia.  The Canadian team is picking up momentum and should be able to break the Australian side.

I am going to be away this weekend for our first holiday weekend of the summer.  I really hope Canada can manage a few wins in their pool.  The following weekend we get a similar pool draw with Australia, Kenya and South Africa.  Good luck lads!


Here is the squad heading to the UK for the next 2 weekend events.

John Moonlight (Castaway Wanderers/Ontario Blues) (Pickering, ON)
Thyssen de Goede (James Bay AA, British Columbia) (Victoria, BC)
Mitch Gudgeon (James Bay AA, British Columbia) (Victoria, BC)
Luke Cudmore (Capilano RFC, British Columbia) (Squamish, BC)
Kyle Gilmour (Calgary Hornets, Prairie Wolf Pack,) (Calgary, AB)
Mike Sholz (Castaway Wanderers, Ontario Blues) (Oakville, ON)
Phil Mack – Captain (University of Victoria, British Columbia) (Victoria, BC)
Nathan Hirayama (University of Victoria, British Columbia) (Victoria, BC)
Ciaran Hearn(Castaway Wanderers,  The Rock) (Conception Bay, Nfld)
Sean Duke (University of Victoria, British Columbia) (Vancouver, BC)
Harry Jones (University of British Columbia, British Columbia) (Vancouver, BC)
Sean Ferguson (University of Victoria, British Columbia) (Vancouver, BC)
Justin Mensah-Coker (Meraloma, British Columbia) (Vancouver, BC)