Christmas charity donations
We are collecting dry food, new toys and money to help families this Christmas.
Please bring your donation to the clubhouse.
BRIT LIONS TEAM NEWS
Results
The Rich-Lions started off the last round of the fall season weekend games with a comfortable win over SFU, 38-0.
The Senior Men had an away day at Connaught Park against the Meralomas. After a bye week and some poor practice turn outs the squad played a strong first half and a decent second half to come away with the road victory, a hat-trick of tries from Sike Waqavatu helped us on our way to a 53-5 win.
On Sunday the U16 Boys had their playoff final game against Abbotsford at John Oliver Park. The U16s were cheered on by a good sideline support as they faced a much changed Abbotsford team from the previous two encounters this season. Abby started strong and put our Young Lions under sustained pressure. We defended heroically for 20 minutes inside our 22m zone until finally conceding a converted try. This got our boys fired up and the game took on a more even tone with us putting on some pressure on Abby which resulted in a converted try right on half-time, 7-7 at the half. Abby started the 2nd half with another converted try but now the game was more end to end and the Young Lions countered with another try to make it 14-14. By now our fitness was starting to make the difference in the game. We were carrying the play and scored 2 more tries, one converted to make it 26-14. But this was a final and Abby did not give up. After a number of penalties against us mainly for high tackles or offside the referee finally put her foot down and awarded Abby a penalty try to make it 26-21. The referee then blew for full time and our boys were the deserved winners. A tough test for our team and a sign of what will come next season in the Blue division for this group. The boys showed their thanks to their coaches and the sidelines for their support and big smiles were seen all around. What a first season for this group, they were committed to practice and got better in every game. They still have room to improve and next year will be an exciting test. Congratulations to the BC U16 Gold Champions.
The U18 Boys had a semi-final playoff game this weekend, away to the Squamish Axemen. The Axemen were undefeated and were the biggest test the U18 Lions faced this season. Squamish started fast with a converted try in the first minute of the game. The Lions are a proud group and fought back to take the game to 14-12 for the Axemen going into the 2nd half. From the reports passed back Squamish were able to draw some experienced older players from their bench which made an impact on the game. After an hour of close scoring the game opened up and the Axemen finished off the Lions with 19 unanswered points, the final score was 33-12 for Squamish. The U18 Lions are are talented and committed group. Their efforts at practice and in games has resulted in big improvements over the season. They have become a close group who will only grow better with more experiences like the game on Sunday. They wanted more from this season but the have set their own standard now and next year playing at the Blue division will see the strength of this team grow.
A huge thank you goes out to all our Junior coaches who have done everything possible to teach and improve every single junior player this season. Brandon, Kelvin, Wayne, with help from Joe and Rory have done a fantastic job to have two first year teams winning one final and getting to a semi-final with the 70 players coming together for the first time in August. The Brit Lions and Richmond rugby clubs should be very proud of our Junior Boys.
Weekend Games
Next games will be in January 2025
Our Future
We now have Minis, Junior Boys, Junior Girls, Senior Men and Senior Women running at John Oliver Park. We have grown from less than 60 club members in 2023 to almost 140 members so far in 2024.
The Junior Boys had 60+ players for the U16 & U18 teams who competed in a successful fall season. The success was down to our coaches Brandon Bloomfield (Grandview Grizzlies) ,Kelvin Paddle (DSS) and Wayne Davis providing high quality instruction to a group of players who only wanted to be better. It will be exciting to see how much the fall club season will improve all the local High School rugby teams were are now affiliated with.
Rugby in Delta is on the start of a big upswing.
About Us
Almost 100 Years of Brits Rugby!
Located in the heart of the Lower Mainland ,the Brit Lions Rugby Club plays out of Delta BC and is only a 45 minute drive from downtown Vancouver.
We have all your adult BC Rugby needs covered with our Division 2 Senior Men's Rugby Team and our Division 2 Senior Women's Rugby Team
We have Junior Rugby for boys and girls at U16 and U18 age groups and also Minis Rugby (ages 5-12yrs).
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Our new Club Partner
Our new Club Partner
We are happy to announce that we have now teamed up with PAPA JOHNS PIZZA at 6345 120th Street. Our Promo code is DELTA25.
Our new club partner - New Balance Delta
The BRIT LIONS are happy to announce that we have secured a 10% discount for all club members and supporters at the New Balance store located at 109 - 6345 120 St. Delta, BC V4E2A6
Our new Club Partner - Rock Solid Solutions
Our new Club Partner
