Posted by
druzik on Nov 29th, 2010 in
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By Daniel Andruczyk
This week on Rugby League International Scores TV, highlights from this years Atlantic Cup. This is game 2 played between Jamaica and Canada. The Tournament was played in Jacksonville Florida, where there is a real Rugby League community and culture there. On a clear yet cool night the two teams put on a tough match where Canada surprised many taking the early lead the lead. The tournament also...
By Daniel Andruczyk
So this is a bit of a catch up post. There have been many results that have come in this week. Even though the main international games are over our juniors are involved in many tournaments at the moment. The U18’s and school boys are playing and against the French, English and Welsh. Now I already have given a couple of these results but several more have come through. The Serbian University...
By Daniel Andruczyk
With the Atlantic Cup almost a week behind us now its given me time to sit back relax and think about what I had just witnessed and ponder some of the more interesting news that came out of the tournament. This news wasn’t announced in any pomp and ceremony but on the side in just regular discussions over beers and food late late in the night while I was working. The first hint of this came...
Posted by
druzik on Nov 24th, 2010 in
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By Daniel Andruczyk
This week on Rugby League International Scores TV, highlights from this years Atlantic Cup. This is game 1 played between the USA and Jamaica. The Tournament was played in Jacksonville Florida, where there is a real Rugby League community and culture there. On a cold, windy and wet night the two teams put on a fiery match where the lead was oscillating between the two throughout the match. The...
By Daniel Andruczyk
So, sitting in Jacksonville airport, I started thinking back over the week and my memories and thoughts and impressions of the whole tournament. Certainly there have been some fun, funny, happy moments as well as a couple scary ones. No sad ones fortunately, except maybe for players that didn’t get selected in various games. So I am going to write a bit about my thoughts and experiences that I...
By Daniel Andruczyk
The USA Tomahawks today confirmed that they were the top dogs in the Atlantic region with an emphatic victory over the Canadian Wolverines 46-12. The tournament was still in the balance, if Canada won the the Jamaicans would be champions, if the Canadians won by 31 or more then they would be champions. A big crowd of 2800 turned out to see the Tomahawks. Pre game entertainment was by a local band...
By Daniel Andruczyk
A short post today. So last night ended up being a good night out. Had a good look at Jacksonville’s night spots, the Beaches seem to be where all the action happens. One interesting thnin g was talking with people, again there was a large awareness of the game and the Axemen here. Some people said that they were going to the game. So will be interesting to see how many turn out today.
This...
By Daniel Andruczyk
This morning, the Jamaicans were up early to have a well earned day off. With their tournament over now and their fate now in the hands of the Canadians, its a waiting game to see who wins the Atlantic Cup. The Jamaican players travel to Orlando and will stay over night there to relax. This is a big thing for many of them. The domestic based players, many of them out of the country for the first...
By Daniel Andruczyk
Jamaica 32 – 12 Canada in Jacksonville, Florida
History was made two-fold tonight in Jacksonville. The Canadian Wolverines Played their first match in a tournaments and their second international opposition since coming back to Rugby League and secondly the Jamaican Rugby league team finally got their Maiden win. Having narrowly lost on Tuesday, and some feel that they we unfairly treated,...
By Daniel Andruczyk
Day 5, started with breakfast with the teams. There was a quick meeting with the guys from We Are Rugby, they have tested the feed now and it is working 100% so tonight should be a great show. The problem was that the server was the same one the Uni was using and so with the game and students logging on it overloaded the system, Tonight there is a dedicated server and we have full bandwidth only...