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The Rich-Lions started 2026 with a loss to the Rowers in Richmond on Jan 17th, but they had a bye on Saturday. The Senior Men started the Spring season with a home game against Kamloops. Last season's BC Playoffs winners have great numbers and play a physical style. The surprise is that they are only 4th in our division so far this season. That shows how much the other teams in our league have improved, while we continue in our rebuilding process. The ground was a little crispy on Saturday but the game time weather was great. To compete with Kamloops you have to match or better their full on start to games. Unfortunately this was a big ask for our young team. We played most of the first half with only 14 players after an early injury and the first 40 minutes was very one sided on the score sheet. We regrouped at half-time and set ourselves a target to score 2 tries and learn from our mistakes. We got off to a fine start with  an exciting score from Dante after a quality offload by Jayce. Kamloops took exception to our start and scored one as well. We kept the pressure on and after a quick tap penalty in the Kamloops 22 by Jon T, Jayce powered over 2 defenders to touch down. We got our 2 converted tries early on and kept pushing for more. Kamloops had a very exciting 17 year old playing at #10, he looks like he will go far in his career and he cut through our defence a number of times in the game but we have one as well in Louis. Kamloops got another try to make the score 14-12 for us in the second half, there were wishes for a bonus point but just winning the half would be a great achievement for us. With time running down and our team down to only 13 players we pushed for another score. We won a scrum penalty in our 22m. Louis took a quick tap and took off down the park, a wide pass out to King Hassan at half way drew a high tackle penalty. A kick to touch, a lineout take and an out to Dante who found Louis with some space to run. A quick ruck led to a pass out to Louai, up went the kick and chase into the 22, Louai caught the ball on the bounce and gave the offload to Dr Rob who touched down beside the posts. Game over, we won the second half 19-12 but had lost the game 19-68. To win the second half of the game was a great achievement, we played the half first one then two players down and bettered the same team that run us ragged in the first half. Our young team have a great spirit and play for 80 minutes every game. The growth and improvement is there in flashes, we need to be more consistent in our attacks and more aggressive on defence to turn these losses into victories. With 8 players 19 or younger on Saturday we have a group for the future,  we just need to see more of the older players show up at practices and games to share their experience and give us the player numbers we need to compete in this division.

Jan 31st - the Rich-Lions play Ridge Meadows at King George Park, Richmond at 11.15

Jan 31st - the Senior Men play Meralomas at Connaught Park, Vancouver at 12.45