International Rugby News
The post-World Cup signing binge begins and USA flyhalf AJ MacGinty has signed with Connacht of the Guinness Pro 12 league.
Connacht is one of four Irish teams in the pan-European league that also includes four Welsh teams, two Scottish teams, and two Italian teams. Among those is the Cardiff Blues, where Eagles Blaine Scully and Cam Dolan will start their season soon.
Cardiff Blues Head Coach Danny Wilson welcomes three Rugby World Cup veterans back to their fold and two of them are USA players.
Former Cal All American Blaine Scully and former Life University All American Cam Dolan join Samoa star Rey Lee-Lo to play for the Blues ... but not right now.
The American Rugby Pro Training Center (ARPTC) drew a lot of praise during its first year of existence. It placed players into a full-time rugby environment, and output skilled athletes and high-functioning teams. After winning the women’s club 7s national championship, six residents were invited to the mid-September USA Women 7s camp at the Olympic Training Center (OTC).
The members of the USA Men’s National Team have split up and gone back home.
Some are off to professional contracts, others back to squeezing work and rugby into an ever-shrinking day. Some return to the USA to look around and think “now what?”
In Ruggamatrix America Show #157 - Bittersweet - the panel looks back at the USA World Cup.
It's a bittersweet experience, playing in a World Cup. You want to win games, but games aren't easy to win. At the same time, just being there is an experience of a lifetime.