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Canada's 2014 Home Schedule announced.
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<blockquote data-quote="LittleGuy" data-source="post: 613694" data-attributes="member: 44360"><p>That was the very first test ever played on turf, it was also specially designed for rugby unlike our turf stadiums which are primarily for Canadian gridiron or FIFA approved for soccer. I do think the turf stigma will start to dissapear now that U.S.A. and Russia have played on it without a problem and we've held the ARC on turf in B.C. for the past couple of years, it's mostly about getting those teams and sanctioning bodies over the hump shall we say. I can't beleive the turf is too short at BC place, a CFL field(including end zones) is 150 yards long, well within Intenational rugby standards.</p><p></p><p>A neutral site championship game would be a bit of a lark, none of the neutral site games in the last few years has been well attended and with the dreadful pitches that some of the European teams have it's unlikely it could be used in a doubleheader type event with a Tier One side game afterwords.</p><p></p><p>I'm really wondering what Canada's potential 2nd extra game would be, maybe they are thinking of bringing over a lower ranked European side or something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleGuy, post: 613694, member: 44360"] That was the very first test ever played on turf, it was also specially designed for rugby unlike our turf stadiums which are primarily for Canadian gridiron or FIFA approved for soccer. I do think the turf stigma will start to dissapear now that U.S.A. and Russia have played on it without a problem and we've held the ARC on turf in B.C. for the past couple of years, it's mostly about getting those teams and sanctioning bodies over the hump shall we say. I can't beleive the turf is too short at BC place, a CFL field(including end zones) is 150 yards long, well within Intenational rugby standards. A neutral site championship game would be a bit of a lark, none of the neutral site games in the last few years has been well attended and with the dreadful pitches that some of the European teams have it's unlikely it could be used in a doubleheader type event with a Tier One side game afterwords. I'm really wondering what Canada's potential 2nd extra game would be, maybe they are thinking of bringing over a lower ranked European side or something. [/QUOTE]
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