Sunday 9 July 2023
Kick-off 11.00am NZT
Live on Sky Sport 1

1 Phillipa Love (25)
2 Luka Connor (15)
3 Amy Rule (13)
4 Maiakawanakaulani Roos (15)
5 Chelsea Bremner (13)
6 Alana Bremner (14)
7 Kennedy Simon (14) (Co-Captain)
8 Liana Mikaele-Tu'u (12)
9 Arihiana Marino-Tauhinu (13)
10 Ruahei Demant (27) (Co-Captain)
11 Katelyn Vahaakolo (1)
12 Logo-I-Pulotu Lemapu Atai'i (Sylvia) Brunt (8)
13 Amy du Plessis (8)
14 Mererangi Paul (1)
15 Renee Holmes (11)

16 Georgia Ponsonby (14)
17 Kate Henwood (1)
18 Tanya Kalounivale (7)
19 Lucy Jenkins*
20 Kendra Reynolds (10)
21 Iritana Hohaia (1)
22 Rosie Kelly (1)
23 Kelsey Teneti (1)

*Denotes Black Ferns debut.

CANADA’S WOMEN’S RUGBY TEAM MATCH DAY ROSTER vs NEW ZEALAND

1 Olivia DeMerchant (Mapledale, NB) – Halifax Tars RFC 
2 Emily Tuttosi (Souris, MB) – Calgary Hornets / Exeter Chiefs 
3 Daleaka Menin (Vulcan, AB) – Exeter Chiefs
4 Tyson Beukeboom (Uxbridge, ON) – Cowichan RFC 
5 Courtney Holtkamp (Rimbey, AB) – Red Deer Titans Rugby 
6 Gabrielle Senft (Regina, SK) – Castaway Wanderers / Exeter Chiefs
7 Fabiola Forteza (Quebec City, QC) – Club de rugby de Québec / Stade Bordelais 
8 Sophie de Goede (Victoria, BC) – Castaway Wanderers RFC 
9 Justine Pelletier (Rivière-du-Loup, QC) – Club de rugby de Québec / Stade Bordelais 
10 Julia Schell (Uxbridge, ON) – Guelph Redcoats / Castaway Wanderers
11 Paige Farries (Red Deer, AB) – Westshore RFC / Worcester Warriors 
12 Sara Kaljuvee (Ajax, ON) – Toronto Scottish / Westshore RFC
13 Fancy Bermudez (Edmonton, AB) – Nor’Wester Athletic Association / Westshore RFC
14 Florence Symonds (Hong Kong) – University of British Columbia 
15 Sabrina Poulin (St-Georges, QC) – TMRRFC / Eibar Rugby Taldea

FINISHERS

16 Gillian Boag (Calgary, AB) – Capilano RFC
17 McKinley Hunt (King City, ON) – Aurora Barbarians 
18 Alexandria Ellis (Ottawa, ON) – Barrhaven Scottish / Saracens 
19 Emma Taylor (Scotsburn, NS) – Halifax RFC 
20 Sara Svoboda (Belleville, ON) – Brantford Harlequins / Belleville Bulldogs / Loughborough Lightning
21 Olivia Apps (Lindsay, ON) – Lindsay RFC
22 Claire Gallagher (Caledon, ON) – Aurora Barbarians / University of Ottawa 
23 Shoshanah Seumanutafa (White Rock, BC) – University of British Columbia

Straight after ABs, nice

Pissed I'm gonna miss this but have tickets for the double header the following weekend.

Is this on Stan?

Found it.

Impressive to see a referee backing her own ability to make a call twice on a try and a no try

Is it artificial turf?

Good hit back from the Canadians

Halftime 21-14 to the Black Ferns , first 20 belonged to the Ferns but impressed with the Canadian pack to crawl their way back into the game after being down 21-0 ..
Ferns trying to be too flash as opposed to earning the right to go wide by doing the mahi up front first

@Mattasaurus said in Canada v Black Ferns (Pacific Four):

Is it artificial turf?

Apparently. Comms mentioned it earlier

@Steven-Harris said in Canada v Black Ferns (Pacific Four):

Halftime 21-14 to the Black Ferns , first 20 belonged to the Ferns but impressed with the Canadian pack to crawl their way back into the game after being down 21-0 ..
Ferns trying to be too flash as opposed to earning the right to go wide by doing the mahi up front first

28-21.

Bit close.

55mins

Nice work to put the winger Paul over.

33-21 kick misses.

Grubber might have been the better option there

Good we are seeing a contest , suspect the Ferns may lay on a few more tries before games end

The Black Ferns should go on to win this. But the sheer effort and determination shown by the Canadian players has been impressive. Whatever the result, they look like the sort of players who will never need to wonder "what if?" later on.

38 21, but checking knock on. Should ok ...

Looks good

Try stands

Few grass burns showing on the knees from the turf

Kick is good. 40-21

Canadian 8 is a very good player

Not sure of her name Lucy Jenkins #19 for the Ferns has been busy since coming on (no sound here)

@Steven-Harris said in Canada v Black Ferns (Pacific Four):

Canadian 8 is a very good player

Her Dad was quite handy back in the day.

Jenkins looks a very good athlete

@Mattasaurus said in Canada v Black Ferns (Pacific Four):

Few grass burns showing on the knees from the turf

Google tells me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FieldTurf

@booboo played back in the 90s from what I recall , the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree , I was really impressed with De Goede ,her work rate and the ability to deal with the ball from a retreating scrum , there’s a few male players I have seen over the years that can’t control the ball at the back of a dominant scrum .lol
Chuck in goal kicking as well .

@Steven-Harris said in Canada v Black Ferns (Pacific Four):

@booboo played back in the 90s from what I recall , the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree , I was really impressed with De Goede ,her work rate and the ability to deal with the ball from a retreating scrum , there’s a few male players I have seen over the years that can’t control the ball at the back of a dominant scrum .lol
Chuck in goal kicking as well .

Hans was skipper at RWC87

I watched the 1st half live and the 2nd half this afternoon. As others have said , it was good to see Canada take it to the BFs. They were very unlucky to lose to England in the SF at the RWC, so are a good team.

The game against USA will be a route. du Plessis looks to lack some top end speed.

@Bovidae said in Canada v Black Ferns (Pacific Four):

I watched the 1st half live and the 2nd half this afternoon. As others have said , it was good to see Canada take it to the BFs. They were very unlucky to lose to England in the SF at the RWC, so are a good team.

The game against USA will be a route. du Plessis looks to lack some top end speed.

But she runs a very good line and her support play was very good.

@ACT-Crusader I'll be interested to see how Grace Brooker goes.

@booboo said in Canada v Black Ferns (Pacific Four):

@Steven-Harris said in Canada v Black Ferns (Pacific Four):

@booboo played back in the 90s from what I recall , the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree , I was really impressed with De Goede ,her work rate and the ability to deal with the ball from a retreating scrum , there’s a few male players I have seen over the years that can’t control the ball at the back of a dominant scrum .lol
Chuck in goal kicking as well .

Hans was skipper at RWC87

@Steven-Harris hate autocorrect ... Hans became Hansen ...