Despite success of women’s 15s team, Nathan Bombrys faces a challenge in trying to establish rugby as a sporting concern in Canada
One glance at the Rugby Canada website is enough to gauge some of the problems currently troubling the sport in this country. Under the schedule for the senior men’s 15s tab, three words spell it out: No coming games.
Though there are some seeds of hope – Bombrys said there should be some announcements on that front in the next week or so – it’s far from ideal for a team ranked 23rd in the world, just one place above its historic low of 24th. It must be noted that the review preceded the hiring of Bombrys, who took a substantial step toward improving that area with the hiring of Stephen Aboud as high-performance director last month.
“I’ve certainly been overwhelmed since taking the job, how much good will there is, amongst other countries, other rugby countries and rugby unions, towards Canada, and towards Rugby Canada,” he said. “While the women are one of the best teams in the world, to go from where we are now to where we want to get to, there’s a lot of work that still needs to go in and a lot of support,” he said. “You don’t win a World Cup without support.”
“We really don’t have that in Canada,” he explained. “We do have [Major League Rugby] and the Arrows and we appreciate that, but that’s not the same thing as playing for a major soccer team yet or it’s not the same thing as the Six Nations because we don’t have that source to feed us.
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