Hey everyone,
We will be at the UNB Dome this Saturday Feb 25th from 12-1. Please be there for 11:50 so we can rock and/or roll right at 12. Cost: 5 bucks, 5 smackers, 5 dineros, 5 Lauriers etc. and everyone is encouraged to come out. We will be doing 20 mins or so of practice and then playing 7s for the rest of the time. Cheers

The Bay City Rollers could be heard just dimly in everybody’s minds so that could only have meant one thing it was Saturday night and the fifth week of the Fredericton Indoor Touch League was about to commence.

The Suited Spheniscidae would be double playing two different teams this week because the majority of them are off to the Las Vegas 7s to represent NB in the club side of the international tournament.  Good luck quackers and always bet on black!.  The first game of the…

Week 5 :  Mens' Results and Standings (2pts for a win/1pt for a tie)

Has Beens   3                                  Port City Penguins     9

Kowalski Killers 1                             Port City Penguins    10

Baby Elephants 1                               Burt’s Allstarts        11                               

PEI Potato Pickers 14                           Lanky Locks          10

Men’s League Standings

1. PEI Potato…

Week 5: Results/Standings/Scorers

Grey Bush    7                     STU        1

Cunning Stunts 1                Young Guns 2

1. Grey Bush                       10

2. Young Guns                      6

3 STU                                  3

4. Cunning Stunts                 1

Leading Scorers

1. Lindsay Oakes                    9

2. Emy Ritchie                       …

A famous person once said ‘rugby is a good occasion for keeping 15 bullies from the centre of the city’  and that is what occurred this past Saturday for 3 hours and 60 odd people.  Fredericton was still recovering from the 80 person rugby pub crawl on Friday evening and touch would provide the city with a little bit of relief, like FEMA in New Orleans, from the rugger hoard.

The Port City Penguins in their traditional dress of t-shirt tuxedos were looking rebound from last…

Week 4: Results/Standings/Scorers

Grey Bush    6      Cunning Stunts 0

STU 2                  Young Guns 4

1. Grey Bush                           8

2. Young Guns                        4

3 STU                                    3

4. Cunning Stunts                    1

Leading Scorers

1. Lindsay Oakes                    8

2. Emy Ritchie                        5

2. Emily…

Week 4 :  Results and Standings (2pts for a win/1pt for a tie)

Free Agents     4                                 Port City Penguins 12

Kowalski Killers 4                                Burt’s Allstars        15

Baby Elephants 7                                Lanky Locks         5                               

PEI Potato Pickers 8                             Has Beens             3

Men’s League Standings

1. PEI Potato…

The send-off for our military members heading to Afghanistan for their training mission was a great success last night. 

A great crowd congregated at the club to show their support and thank Alastair Klima, Jamie Young, Doug Hall, and (just back in town) Jeff Kalbhenn.  The club made a presentation of some limited edition t-shirts made specifically so the boys could represent while remaining inconspicuous in the Afghan sand. …

Due to unforeseen circumstances the ladies and lads were moved to the brand new Currie Centre for what would be week 3 of the Fredericton touch league.  People were nervous and apprehensive about having to change from their familiar surroundings known as the LB Gym for someone new and DQ different. The blizzard which is known as the touch league descended upon unsuspecting and curious gym goers not knowing if a brawl was going to break out or if the insane asylum was out on a field…

Week 3 :  Results and Standings (2pts for a win/1pt for a tie)

PEI Potato Pickers 11                          Port City Penguins 7

Free Agents 1                                     Burt’s Allstar’s 15

Baby Elephants 2                                Has Beens 6                               

Lanky Locks 2                                     Kowalski Killers 3

Men’s League Standings

1. Has…

Week 3: Results and Standings (2pts for a win/1pt for a tie)

Grey Bush    5      Young Guns 3

STU 5                Cunning Stunts 4

1. Grey Bush                           6

2 STU                                    3

3. Young Guns                        2

4. Loyalists                              1

Leading Scorers

1. Lindsay Oakes                    5

2. Emy…

Week 2: Results and Standings (2pts for a win/1pt for a tie)

Grey Bush  8        STU 4

Young Guns 3      Cunning Stunts 3

Women’s League Standings

1. Grey Bush                           4

2. Young Guns                        2

3. STU                                     1

4. Loyalists                              1

Leading Scorers

1. Lindsay Oakes                    4

2.…

Week 2 :  Results and Standings (2pts for a win/1pt for a tie)

Burt’s Allstar 4                                    Port City Penguins 6

Free Agents 6                                      Lanky Locks 7

Baby Elephants 1                                PEI Potato Pickers 4

Has Beens 11                                      Kowalski Killers 3

Men’s League Standings

1. Has Beens                                    4

2. Port…

Week 2 Recap :

The gym doors were open, lights turned on and atmosphere that would rival an all you can eat buffet at Pizza Delight also known as deliciousness the SJ Penquins would step on the floor against the Burt’s All-stars.  The quack of the Penguins would start early with some good ball movement and running lines with Richard “The Dude” Naves opening the scoring. The Penguins kept quacking with Jack “Frightening” Skerry scoring scoring 3 tries.  Chris “Don’t Call Me…

On a brisk night in Fredericton, over 70 players made their way to the LBR for the first night of the Fredericton touch league.  With their sneakers tied, shirts on and hair done the Baby Elephants would take on the Port City Penguins in the inaugural game.   The Penguins would score early and often with some good slicing and dicing by Cammy “I Eat People” Ough and Walker “Wacky Legs” Blizzard with the husky gentleman having no answer.  But in a strange turn of fate the husky gentleman of…

Week 1: Results and Standings (2pts for a win/1pt for a tie)

Grey Bush  3           Cunning Stunts 2

Young Guns  0           STU 0

Women’s League Standings

1. Grey Bush                           2

2. Young Guns                        1

3. STU                                    1

4. Cunning Stunts                   0

Leading Scorers:

Lindsay Oakes         2

Emy Ritchie…

Week 1 :  Results and Standings (2pts for a win/1pt for a tie)

Burt’s Allstar      15                             Lanky Locks 1

Free Agents 3                                      Has Beens 4

Baby Elephants 6                                Port City Penguins 8

PEI Potatoes 10                                  Kowalski Killers 0

Men’s League Standings

1. Has Beens                                        2

2. Port City…

Happy 2012 to all Loyalists near and far. 

As you can see we had a great turnout for the annual New Year's kickoff at the club yesterday. You can also see that there was no snow on the ground so a true Snow Bowl was a no go. A few brave souls did, however, get on the field to…

Assessing rugby fitness

By Dr Sally Lark and Doug McClymont

Endurance aerobic fitness

In a previous issue of Better Rugby Coaching, we covered Cooper's 12-minute run fitness test. In this issue we look at other types of test.

40/20 – a fun test

The 40/20 is a repeated speed test aimed at testing your VO2 max by working at 100 per cent.

Record your time over a 1,500m time trial and calculate your average speed in m/sec.…

A hearty congratulations to long time Loyalist George Bidlake who was one of this year's recipents of the Martha J. Harvey Award of Distinction. George was recognized, along with fellow recipent Bob Dallison, for his contributions and longtime commitment to Central New Brunwick history. 

This should come as no surprise to Loyalists as George has been one of the club's foremost unofficial historians since he started playing in 1963. I say one of because most of us are amateur…