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Ontario Blues

Ontario Blues logo.png
Full name
Ontario Blues Rugby Football Club
Union
Rugby Canada
Founded
2009
Location
Toronto, Ontario
Ground(s)
Fletcher's Fields (Capacity: 3,000)
League(s)
Canadian Rugby Championship















Team kit


Official website

www.rugbyontario.com

The Ontario Blues are the senior men's representative rugby team for Ontario. They were founded in 2009 to compete in the Americas Rugby Championship against other representative teams from Canada, Argentina, and the United States. In their inaugural season, the Blues suffered narrow losses against British Columbia and the Wolf Pack before defeating the Rock to advance to the Canadian Final. The Blues would again lose to BC, but defeated the U.S. Selects in the bronze medal match.


In 2010, Rugby Canada changed the format of the Canadian competition of the ARC, introducing the CRC. The four Canadian teams which competed in the ARC stayed the same, but now played in the CRC, with a Canadian Selects team being chosen from CRC players, and that selects team going on to represent Canada at the ARC. The Blues went on to win four straight Canadian Rugby Championships from 2011 to 2014 during a stretch where they were 19 wins and one loss over three seasons. The Blues have since won the MacTier Cup in 2016 and 2018.




Contents





  • 1 Teams


  • 2 Season Records

    • 2.1 Americas Rugby Championship


    • 2.2 Canadian Rugby Championship



  • 3 Honours


  • 4 Current squad


  • 5 Notable players

    • 5.1 Canada



  • 6 Games played against international opposition


  • 7 References


  • 8 External links




Teams[edit]


In 2017, Rugby Ontario announced that their entire provincial rugby program would be branded under the name "Ontario Blues", replacing the "Ontario Storm" name which had been used for the women's team. The Ontario Blues name now encompasses all provincial representative teams of Rugby Ontario. This includes age-grade competition (U15-U18), development squads (U19 Men's and U20 Women's).


The Ontario Arrows are a privately funded elite club, which is closely related to the Blues organization, that is in negotiations to join the professional Major League Rugby for the 2019 season.[1][2][3][4] The club will play exhibition games in 2018 at York Lions Stadium.[5]



Season Records[edit]



Americas Rugby Championship[edit]




















Season
Position
Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
Bonus
Points

2009
2nd (Round-robin)310237
Canadian final

BC Bears 12 – 8 Ontario Blues


Canadian Rugby Championship[edit]


















































































Season
Position
Played
Won
Drawn
Lost
Bonus
Points

2010
3rd310226

2011
1st5401420

2012
1st5401420

2013
1st5000323

2014
1st6501424

2015
2nd210115

2016
1st4301214

2017
2nd4202313
2018
1st
4
3
0
1
2
14


Honours[edit]



  • Canadian Rugby Championship
    • Champions: 6 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018)


Current squad[edit]


Squad for the 2017 Canadian Rugby Championship season.






Forwards


  • Rob Brouwer

  • Djustice Sears-Duru

  • Eric Howard

  • Andrew Quattrin

  • Ryan Surgenor

  • Pat Lynott

  • Hank McQueen

  • Mike Sheppard

  • Paul Ciulini

  • Andrew Wilson

  • Lucas Rumball

  • Jeremy Wright

  • Seb Pearson

 

Backs


  • Andrew Ferguson

  • Mario van der Westhuizen

  • Shawn Windsor

  • John Sheridan

  • Dan Moor

  • Alex Colborne

  • Jon West

  • Josh Campbell

  • Kainoa Lloyd

  • Rory McDonnell


Notable players[edit]



Canada[edit]


The following players have represented Canada at full international level.


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Games played against international opposition[edit]


See also: List of Ontario Blues (rugby union) matches





















































































Year
Date
Opponent
Result
Score
Tour
2009
22 August

United States Midwest Thunderbirds
Win
38-5
Pre-season exhibition
2009
17 October

United States USA Selects
Win
27-24

2009 ARC Bronze medal match
2010
8 June

England England Counties
Loss
32-26

2010 Tour of Canada
2010
10 July

United States Midwest Thunderbirds
Win
38-5
Pre-season exhibition
2012
5 May

Chile Chile
Loss
19-17
Ontario Blues 2012 South American Tour
2012
8 May

Argentina Salta Province
Win
32-26
Ontario Blues 2012 South American Tour
2012
13 May

 Uruguay
Win
27-16
Ontario Blues 2012 South American Tour
2013
4 May

United States New York Athletic Club RFC
Win
38-23
Pre-season exhibition
2013
23 August

United States Life University
Win
36-20
Pre-season exhibition
2016
11 June

England England Counties
Loss
73-0

2016 Tour of Canada
2016
29 August

Republic of Ireland Cork Constitution
Win
12-10
2016 Tour of Canada
2017
29 April

United States Old Blue RFC
Win
43-31
Pre-season exhibition
2017
20 May

United States Glendale Raptors
Win
43-25
Pre-season exhibition


References[edit]




  1. ^ "New York and Ontario in Major League Rugby talks". 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2017-11-19..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  2. ^ "Ontario Arrows to launch Elite Rugby Team in September". 2017-08-25. Retrieved 2017-09-20.


  3. ^ Davidson, Neil (2017-09-08). "Ontario Arrows take first step toward becoming pro rugby outfit". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2017-09-20.


  4. ^ "MLR reveals Finals Locations and Expansion Plans". 2018-03-07. Retrieved 2018-03-31.


  5. ^ "ONTARIO ARROWS ANNOUNCE YORK UNIVERSITY AS 2018 HOME VENUE". Rugby Canada. 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2018-03-31.




External links[edit]


  • Rugby Ontario website

  • ARC website



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