Bermuda national rugby union team

Summary

The Bermuda national rugby union team represents Bermuda in the sport of rugby union. Bermuda are the current Caribbean Champions 2019 although they have thus far not played in a Rugby World Cup, but have participated in qualifying tournaments[citation needed].

Bermuda national rugby union team
Shirt badge/Association crest
UnionBermuda Rugby Football Union
Head coachJamie Barnwell
CaptainTom Greenslade
First colours
World Rugby ranking
Current68 (as of 23 November 2020)
First international
 Bermuda 16 - 10  Jamaica
(1975)
Biggest win
 Bermuda 78 - 5  Trinidad and Tobago
(17 May 1994)
Biggest defeat
 Mexico 75 - 10  Bermuda(21 May 2016) History edit

Bermuda first played in qualifying tournaments for a Rugby World Cup in the Americas tournaments for the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Bermuda were eliminated from North-Round 1, losing 3 points to 60 to the United States. Bermuda attempted to qualify for the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales as well, participating in Group 2 of Round 1 Americas qualifying, where they finished at the top of their pool after defeating both the Bahamas and Barbados, and advancing to Round 2. They defeated Trinidad and Tobago in their first match, but then lost to Chile, and finished second, ending their qualifying run.

Bermuda competes in the Caribbean Championship, a tournament which includes Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, and Guyana.[1]

They competed in the North group of the Round 1 of the Americas tournaments in qualifying for the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia. They were however knocked out by Trinidad and Tobago and did not advance to Round 2. They drew 10-all against Jamaica in the qualifying tournaments for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France but did not advance.

They would win the North group in the qualifying tournaments for the 2015 Rugby World Cup and defeat Guyana but in the next round were eliminated in Asuncion by Paraguay.

Record edit

Below is a table of the representative rugby matches played by the Bermuda national XV at test level up until 21 September 2019:

Against Played Won Lost Drawn % Won
  Bahamas 10 8 2 0 80%
  Barbados 4 4 0 0 100%
  Canada U21 1 0 1 0 0%
  Cayman Islands 10 4 6 0 40%
  Chile 1 0 1 0 0%
  Florida 1 1 0 0 100%
  Guadeloupe 3 3 0 0 100%
  Guyana 7 6 1 0 85.71%
  Jamaica 6 5 0 1 83.33%
  Luxembourg 1 1 0 0 100%
  Martinique 3 2 0 1 66.67%
  Mexico 3 1 2 0 33.33%
  Paraguay 1 0 1 0 0%
  Trinidad and Tobago 9 5 4 0 55.56%
  Turks and Caicos Islands 1 1 0 0 100%
  United States 1 0 1 0 0%
  USA South 3 0 3 0 0%
Total 65 41 22 2 63.08%

Squad edit

Squad to 2012 NACRA Championship 23 June 2012 [2]

Squad

  • Paul Dobinson
  • Thomas Greenslade
  • Dustin Archibald
  • David Rourke
  • Dereck Hurdle
  • Andrew Hook
  • Henry Paddison
  • Peter Dunkerley (c)
  • Thomas Healey
  • Ian Henderson
  • Jack Ellison
  • Paull Davis
  • Tom Edwards
  • Neville Zuill
  • David Pringle
 

Substitutes

  • Jahan Cedenio
  • Mike Williams
  • Aldo Campbell
  • Tony Ward
  • Darren Richardson
  • Steven Husbands
  • Chris Naylor

Bermuda International Select XV Squad edit

Squad to face Saracens on May 31, 2013 as part of Saracens tour around Bermuda to promote Caribbean rugby.

Head Coach:   Lewis Moody

Player Position Union
George Chuter Hooker   England
Hanyani Shimange Hooker   South Africa
Creag Johnston Prop   Canada
Owen Parfrey Prop   Canada
Nick Wallace Prop   United States
Scott Dunham Lock   Canada
Aaron Flagg Lock   Canada
Graham Harriman Lock   United States
Cam Pierce Lock   Canada
Derek Asbun Flanker   United States
Pete Dunlop Flanker   Bermuda
Ben Green Flanker   Bermuda
Anton van Zyl Flanker   South Africa
Simon Taylor Number 8   Scotland
Shaun Perry Scrum-half   England
Mike Petri Scrum-half   United States
Andrew Ferguson Fly-half   Canada
Zachary Pangelinan Fly-half   United States
Fuailefau Michael Suatia Centre   Canada
Patrick Parfrey Centre   Canada
Mike Scholz Centre   Canada
John Quigley Centre   Bermuda
Tony Ward Centre   Bermuda
Gcobani Bobo Wing   South Africa
Dan Cole Wing   Bermuda
Geordan Murphy (c) Full-back   Ireland

Match Day edit

31 May 2013
18:30 AST (UTC-4)
Bermuda Intl. Select XV  21 – 55  Saracens
Bermuda National Stadium, Hamilton
Referee:   Ian Tempest (England)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1-86200-013-1) p78
  2. ^ www.rugbyworldcup.com https://web.archive.org/web/20120704125825/http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/matches/match%3D13762/index.html. Archived from the original on 2012-07-04. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links edit

  • Bermuda on rugbydata.com