Pacific Nations Cup in 2013, 2014 and 2015

[LittleGuy]

Further bad news for the PNC, it is announced that Rugby Canada are streaming the match. In fairness they can't get much worse than last year's effort, not sure this game will be worth watching considering both team's lineups are completely experimental. Should be a close game but will have little indication as to which side is better, just will give an indication of which side has better depth.

Agreed on the streams, last year's two efforts were weak, the first one was downright embarrassing, while the 2nd had poor commentary and came in five minutes late. This has shades of the 2009 game in Edmonton where Rugby Canada handled the stream on their own and got 10 times the amount of viewers they were expecting so the game became an audio broadcast featuring "rugby stills" hilarious, annoying and embarrasing. Bryan Kelly is handling the play by play, he's an OK interviewer but not sure how he will do with game action.


It seems the US is taking the first game a little more seriously than Canada this is the 24 guys they are bringing up to Edmonton(I guess one extra in case of injury during training).

Prop: Mike MacDonald, Shawn Pittman, Eric Fry, Nick Wallace
Hooker: Tom Coolican, Zach Fenoglio, Phil Thiel
Lock: Brian Doyle, Graham Harriman, Lou Stanfill
Back-row: Todd Clever, Peter Dahl, Liam Murphy, John Quill
Scrumhalf: Robbie Shaw, Chris Saint
Fly-half: Toby L'Estrange, Adam Siddall
Center: Troy Hall, Seamus Kelly, Andrew Suniula
Back Three: Luke Hume, James Paterson, Blaine Scully

 

[white bear]

The proposal for the following year for the Pacific Cup. You can add two Pacific countries: Russia and Chile. Thus the number of participants will be 8, we can make 2 groups of 4 teams, on rating, for example:
Group A
Samoa
Fiji
Japan
Russia
Group B
Tonga
Canada
USA
Chile
Play 3 rounds (home\away), and then the final games in Japan for the 1-3-5-7 seats. That is, each team will play 4 games on.

Russian bears can play home games at Pacific Cup in Krasnoyarsk (Central Siberia), in late May \ June, the weather here is great. There are based two strongest of Professional Russian club at this moment: Enisey-STM (budget of € 5 million) and Krasny Yar (budget of 4.5 million euros), which besides Russian players a lot of strong foreign players.
The city is divided into the Enisey River on 2 parts: on the right bank Enisey-STM is based, and on the left Krasny Yar, and the stadium is located between on the Relax Island. Unfortunately, because of the policy FIRA we can not play ENC in Siberia in February and March due to the winter. But in the late 90's and early 00's in this stadium Russia collected from 10 to 20th fans in the warmer months, against Portugal, Romania, USA, Japan, Italy and Ireland.

http://www.foot-base.com/en/UEFA/Russia/Krasnoyarsk/Central_Stadium/