GRR: Pacific Nations Cup
USA Rugby and AEG Rugby have announced that the USA Men’s Eagles will also host Canada at Dignity Health Sports Park August 31 as kickoff to the 2024 Pacific Nations Cup.
World Rugby initially announced the return of a re-imagined Pacific Nations Cup in October, confirming annual competition for the USA Men’s National Team along with Canada, Japan, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga.
World Rugby has confirmed the formation of a new competition for teams in the Pacific.
This new competition is familiar to those who know their rugby history as it is the same as the latter iteration of the old Pacific Rim championship, which ran from 1996 to 2001.
Japan and USA have maintained their unbeaten starts to the World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup 2019 to set up a title decider in their final match in Suva next weekend.
“A tale of two halves” is the phrase being used to describe the USA’s 21-16 loss to Samoa during the first leg of the Pacific Nations Cup. Samoa dictated the first 40 minutes, staying on offense and trying to knock the spirit out of the USA.
AJ MacGinty was frank about his Eagle debut: Samoa was brutal; there were some nerves to overcome; he made mistakes. But the flyhalf also showed some spark. He played a different game in the second half and helped rally his team to within a try of Samoa, while also keeping the visitors off of the scoreboard.