To Have Him and Hold Him by Kieran Frank5/10/2023 ![]() His contract wasn’t renewed after the 2007 Rugby World Cup and the Rugby Canada board of the day decided to look elsewhere.Įven so, he was committed to the task at hand: making his team better, ready to take on the world’s best when the chance came, ready to snatch some wins which he believed were there for the taking. The Canadians saw more games than ever before, but the results remained middling. ![]() Suggitt’s period in charge saw many holdovers from the Clark era, with a sprinkling of younger players. His time in charge was a tumultuous one off the field, with Rugby Canada eventually transitioning into the operation it is today, with a much larger professional staff than had been the case at the turn of this century. Suggitt’s predecessor, the Australian David Clark, had been recruited from abroad, but he’d also been handed a dual job coaching a centralized development team, first known as CCSD and eventually as the Pacific Pride. The head coach had almost always been drawn from a domestic source. ![]() The jump in 2008 to Rugby Canada, to replace Ric Suggitt following the 2007 Rugby World Cup, was a shift in gears for Rugby Canada. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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