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Hey all,
A Leyther friend suggested I post some news about rugby league developments here in Canada - so this post should bring you all up to speed! Rugby League was reborn here last year with the founding of Canada Rugby League. 2010 was the first year the sport had been played in Canada in ten years. Two domestic club sides were formed last year - The Toronto City Saints and Niagara Bobcats. The Saints received sponsorship from St Helens in the form of full kit and coaching assistance. The coaching via Kieron Purtill, who came over and coached our national side through two international matches last Fall. We were very lucky to have him. All told we played four international matches last year - and one ended up quite close with us marginally losing to a far more experienced US side. We have several more international fixtures planned this year, and we doubled our domestic competition to feature four clubs for 2011. The new clubs are York region Reds (sponsored by Salford City Reds) and Scarborough Centurions. I am the manager of the Centurions side and we are obviously sponsored by the great folks at Leigh Centurions. We received a generous gift of full kit for our entire side and extra shirts and pinnies. For us it's a wonderful feeling - being connected to a professional team with deep roots in English rugby league. I can guarantee you that every guy who walks out onto the pitch in his smart red Centurions kit feels extraordinarily proud to be associated with Leigh, the club and her fans. We've also found that there are folks originally from Leigh living in and around Toronto who are big Centurions fans. We've already attracted two Leigh fans out to our games and we're looking forward to meeting more. One of those two fans has gone on to join the club as a player/coach, the other walked up to me after our last game and handed me a wad of cash, offering it as a gift to help offset our many expenses. It showed me that the generosity shown by Leigh Centurions wasn't a one-off - that Centurions fans are just as generous as the club itself. This whole experience has been pretty amazing for all of us. We've met the most amazing people and we've been able to develop rugby league - a game nearly unknown here.
So with all that said, for those Leigh fans interested in how our season has been going, Scarborough Centurions sit 1-0-1 two games into the domestic season. We had a tie in our first game and lost a squeaker last weekend to the Saints. We play first place Niagara next week.
Photos of the Centurions first two matches can be found here:
www.pbase.com/colinwatson/centurions_saints_2011
www.pbase.com/colinwatson/centurions_reds_2011
There are lots of photos on our website of last year's international fixtures. Click here to look through those:
www.pbase.com/colinwatson
And finally, feel free to check out CRL's website. There's always news about what we're up at the domestic club and international level. That site is here: www.canadarugbyleague.com
If you have any other questions please feel free to ask.
All the best,
Colin W
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Hey all,
A Leyther friend suggested I post some news about rugby league developments here in Canada - so this post should bring you all up to speed! Rugby League was reborn here last year with the founding of Canada Rugby League. 2010 was the first year the sport had been played in Canada in ten years. Two domestic club sides were formed last year - The Toronto City Saints and Niagara Bobcats. The Saints received sponsorship from St Helens in the form of full kit and coaching assistance. The coaching via Kieron Purtill, who came over and coached our national side through two international matches last Fall. We were very lucky to have him. All told we played four international matches last year - and one ended up quite close with us marginally losing to a far more experienced US side. We have several more international fixtures planned this year, and we doubled our domestic competition to feature four clubs for 2011. The new clubs are York region Reds (sponsored by Salford City Reds) and Scarborough Centurions. I am the manager of the Centurions side and we are obviously sponsored by the great folks at Leigh Centurions. We received a generous gift of full kit for our entire side and extra shirts and pinnies. For us it's a wonderful feeling - being connected to a professional team with deep roots in English rugby league. I can guarantee you that every guy who walks out onto the pitch in his smart red Centurions kit feels extraordinarily proud to be associated with Leigh, the club and her fans. We've also found that there are folks originally from Leigh living in and around Toronto who are big Centurions fans. We've already attracted two Leigh fans out to our games and we're looking forward to meeting more. One of those two fans has gone on to join the club as a player/coach, the other walked up to me after our last game and handed me a wad of cash, offering it as a gift to help offset our many expenses. It showed me that the generosity shown by Leigh Centurions wasn't a one-off - that Centurions fans are just as generous as the club itself. This whole experience has been pretty amazing for all of us. We've met the most amazing people and we've been able to develop rugby league - a game nearly unknown here.
So with all that said, for those Leigh fans interested in how our season has been going, Scarborough Centurions sit 1-0-1 two games into the domestic season. We had a tie in our first game and lost a squeaker last weekend to the Saints. We play first place Niagara next week.
Photos of the Centurions first two matches can be found here:
www.pbase.com/colinwatson/centurions_saints_2011
www.pbase.com/colinwatson/centurions_reds_2011
There are lots of photos on our website of last year's international fixtures. Click here to look through those:
www.pbase.com/colinwatson
And finally, feel free to check out CRL's website. There's always news about what we're up at the domestic club and international level. That site is here: www.canadarugbyleague.com
If you have any other questions please feel free to ask.
All the best,
Colin W
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Great post Colin.
Thankyou.
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As Frank says great post, and thanks for the update Colin.
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Thanks for the update Colin, I know we're all keeping a keen eye on developments!
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| Good to hear, well done to all concerned, please keep us updated.  |
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I've promised to send a few DVD's over Colin to assist in coaching as I know RL on TV up to now in Canada has been sp, I will sort some out of our local amateur teams games, our own reserve grade and of course our first grade, I hope they will help.
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Thanks Fred - I am sure they will be dazzled by some of the recent performances. We're hoping to have an article in a future edition of The Centurion, with Alan's kind permission!
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Quote ="FredParky"I've promised to send a few DVD's over Colin to assist in coaching as I know RL on TV up to now in Canada has been sp, I will sort some out of our local amateur teams games, our own reserve grade and of course our first grade, I hope they will help.'"
Thanks for the offer of the DVDs! If you need an address to send them to either message me through this site or email me at colinw@canadarugbyleague.com!
Also I wanted to see if we could buy some Leigh supporter kit (t-shirts etc) for our guys but I don't see much selection on the Centurions site. Do you guys know of a good website that sells Leigh supporters gear?
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Quote ="FredParky"I've promised to send a few DVD's over Colin to assist in coaching as I know RL on TV up to now in Canada has been sp, I will sort some out of our local amateur teams games, our own reserve grade and of course our first grade, I hope they will help.'"
Thanks for the offer of the DVDs! If you need an address to send them to either message me through this site or email me at colinw@canadarugbyleague.com!
Also I wanted to see if we could buy some Leigh supporter kit (t-shirts etc) for our guys but I don't see much selection on the Centurions site. Do you guys know of a good website that sells Leigh supporters gear?
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Quote ="Colin Watson"Thanks for the offer of the DVDs! If you need an address to send them to either message me through this site or email me at colinw@canadarugbyleague.com!
Also I wanted to see if we could buy some Leigh supporter kit (t-shirts etc) for our guys but I don't see much selection on the Centurions site. Do you guys know of a good website that sells Leigh supporters gear?
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Don't know how to do links Colin, so bumped the online shop thread on to this first page, good luck. |
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Quote ="Colin Watson"Thanks for the offer of the DVDs! If you need an address to send them to either message me through this site or email me at colinw@canadarugbyleague.com!
Also I wanted to see if we could buy some Leigh supporter kit (t-shirts etc) for our guys but I don't see much selection on the Centurions site. Do you guys know of a good website that sells Leigh supporters gear?
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Great stuff,nice to see other teams helping out the canadian rl,how about leigh doing a canadian /usa tour at the end of the season,plus is team building reward for end of season efforts and boost the game in new far flund places[who knows we may tick a box for it how hard for the rl would it be to attract sponsors to cover this cost of a tour for the champions of the champioship each year????
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It would be fantastic if Leigh could come over and play a Canada select team then nip over the border and play the Americans. Who knows maybe one day?
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| Thanks for that post Colin. I'm just intrigued to know what "pinnies" are? I have visions of the SC players running out looking like a bunch of Mrs Mopps.  It's strange how plenty of Leythers seem to have gravitated to the same area of Canada. Are there otherworldy forces drawing you all together? Do Mulder and Scully need to come out of retirement? |
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Quote ="FredParky"I've promised to send a few DVD's over Colin to assist in coaching as I know RL on TV up to now in Canada has been sp, I will sort some out of our local amateur teams games, our own reserve grade and of course our first grade, I hope they will help.'"
The Canadians are now getting the SLE games via Setanta Fred.
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Quote ="FredParky"I've promised to send a few DVD's over Colin to assist in coaching as I know RL on TV up to now in Canada has been sp, I will sort some out of our local amateur teams games, our own reserve grade and of course our first grade, I hope they will help.'"
The Canadians are now getting the SLE games via Setanta Fred.
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| Quote ="deluded pom?"Thanks for that post Colin. I'm just intrigued to know what "pinnies" are? I have visions of the SC players running out looking like a bunch of Mrs Mopps.
It's strange how plenty of Leythers seem to have gravitated to the same area of Canada. Are there otherworldy forces drawing you all together? Do Mulder and Scully need to come out of retirement?'"
I don't know what you'd call pinnies, maybe bibs? They're synthetic material tops with cut-off sleeves. Here's an image from a random website of pinnies used for training:
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have a look on www.oneills.com/
they do the centurions kit and they do some good value t shirts polos shorts ect... but without the logo on but they are really good stuff . |
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| I`ve just ordered the white and navy polo tops......  |
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It's strange how plenty of Leythers seem to have gravitated to the same area of Canada. Are there otherworldy forces drawing you all together? Do Mulder and Scully need to come out of retirement?
