Rugby in Canada Dot Com - Site News

CIS National Championships for Women's Rugby this Weekend

2009-11-06T11:45:00.003-05:00

For those interested, www.ssncanada.ca will be live streaming the semi-final and medal games on Saturday and Sunday. Yup, you can scream your head off for your favorite team without ever leaving the privacy of your own home.

Saturday November 7
CIS women's rugby semi-final A @ University of British Columbia, 11 am
CIS women's rugby semi-final B @ University of British Columbia, 1 pm

Sunday November 8
CIS women's rugby bronze medal game @ University of British Columbia, 12 pm
CIS women's rugby championship game @ University of British Columbia, 2 pm

Rugby Wiki Launched

2009-07-26T12:30:00.003-04:00

Hey ruggers,

Well we're started a Rugby Wiki, so think Wikipedia, but all rugby. It's brand new so not really anything there yet. That's where you come in. Check it out at http://www.rugbywiki.org .

Cheers,
Nick
Webmaster rugbyincanada.com

2009-06-04T12:10:00.000-04:00

From the IRB:

"Dear Union Colleague,

I am delighted to inform you of an exciting new IRB web based product which goes live today. The new site www.irblaws.com is an interactive website which teaches and tests the Laws of the game. We are convinced that this tool will revolutionize Rugby Law education.

The key features are:

7 language options: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese & Russian
All compliant with 2009 Laws as approved by IRB Council on the 13th May.
Hundreds of video clips to illustrate the laws
Animations to support learning
Videos to illustrate all Referee and Assistant Referee signals
Self-test capability which covers:

All 22 laws
7's and Under 19 variations
Referee signals
Video tests
The test can be taken over multiple visits to the site
On completion users can download an awareness certificate

Access to the site is free to everyone
Registration is only required when users want to undertake the tests
We can provide Unions with regular reports on who has passed the test and who has started
All IRB licensed Trainers and Educators will receive a DVD to use on courses when internet is unavailable.

The new site will go live at 1100 BST on Tuesday 26th May. Please do go and try it out.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me

Mark Harrington
Training Manager
International Rugby Board"

Our Gear and Apparel Page

2008-07-07T22:57:00.001-04:00

Hey Ruggers,

You can always check out our Gear and Apparel section of the site by clicking on it in the menu, but if you want to make it easier on your brain, you can also bookmark http://www.rugbygear.ca to get to this page.

Cheers,
The rugbyincanada.com Team

Videos Section Working in Internet Explorer 7

2008-06-23T00:03:00.007-04:00

We wrote a while back that the videos section did not work in Internet Explorer. The problem is the video content is pulled from YouTube using Google scripts, i.e., not our programming so we're not sure how long it's been working in Internet Explorer 7. We just happened to try it today and it worked. We'll need to test it in Internet Explorer 6, but as we mentioned in our original post, if you can't see the videos in Internet Explorer, try the site in FireFox (Opera and Safari work as well too).

And on the topic of FireFox, if you're interested, FireFox 3 is available for download and is a lot faster than FireFox 2.x. There's also some cool features too. You can check out some links about all the cool stuff on this FaceBook group, Download FireFox 3 to Break a Guiness World Record .

British and Irish Lions vs. NZ All Blacks - Last Man Standing

2008-05-16T11:28:00.001-04:00

Just a fun tackling video.

NZ All Blacks Scrummaging Practice Video

2008-05-16T08:43:00.000-04:00

Check out this great scrummaging practice video footage from the NZ All Blacks.

Videos on Rugby in Canada Dot Com

2008-03-25T12:11:00.002-04:00

Hey folks,

We're still trying to fix the issue with the videos page not loading videos in Internet Explorer. The problem seems to be with Google as they generate the code to display the player. We'll keep looking into it, but for now if you would like to watch the videos, visit the site in FireFox, Safari or Opera.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
The rugbyincanada.com Team

Site Updates

2008-03-25T11:49:00.002-04:00

Hey Ruggers,

Well you might have seen our "Rugby in Canada Dot Com is down for maintenance. Please come back shortly." page a few times last week.

There was still some updates that needed to be made to the site. Our apologies for the downtime but everything is running smoothly now.

Cheers,
The rugbyincanada.com Team

Rugby Feeds Now on the Site

2008-03-21T19:23:00.007-04:00

Hey Ruggers,

Well we've added a new section to the site called, "Rugby Feeds". We were getting annoyed that feeds were all over the place on the web for rugby, so we've started a repository of feed links. This list will grow over time and will hopefully be a great resource within the next year for rugby feeds.

Cheers,
The rugbyincanada.com Team

Rugby in Canada Dot Com Upgraded

2008-03-18T15:50:00.013-04:00

Hey Ruggers,

While it might not look too different, rugbyincanada.com had a huge technical overhaul this past week. For all the geeks out there, we upgraded the site to ASP.NET 2.0 from 1.0. As well we added a couple of blogs. If you're interested in subscribing to our blogs, click here. There's still a few things on the site that need tweaking, but for the most part the upgrade is all done.

Aside from upgrading the site, you may have noticed a new button on each page. This button allows you to share content on a rugbyincanada.com page with online communities like del.icio.us, Digg, FaceBook etc.

You may have noticed that our message board disappeared. The reason for taking it down was simple. More spam that actual content in the forum. We'll get one up again at some point that's a little more bulletproof in terms of spamming, but for the time being, no forum.

As always, we're open to suggestions for the site, so if you have any, send them here.

Cheers,
The rugbyincanada.com Team

Welcome!

2008-03-16T23:26:00.006-04:00

Hey Ruggers,

Well we've finally set up a blog for rugbyincanada.com. The blog will be used for site news as well as rugby related stuff.

Cheers,
The rugbyincanada.com team