Tyler Ardron has been named in the Canada squad for the upcoming Nations Cup tests against Spain, Portugal, and Zimbabwe. The former captain is joined by veteran lock Evan Olmstead in a 32-man squad comprised of players based across the globe. Steve Meehan has also found room to include six names yet to make their test debut.<\/p>\n
more to come<\/p>\n
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LOOSEHEAD PROP
Cali Martinez (Old Glory DC) 12 caps
Sam Miller (Benfica, PO) 4 caps<\/p>\n
HOOKER
Foster DeWitt (Pe\u00f1arol, UR) 6 caps
Dewald Kotze (Seattle Seawolves) 13 caps
Andrew Quattrin (Valence Romans, FR) 29 caps<\/p>\n
TIGHTHEAD PROP
Cole Keith (Doncaster Knights, UK) 44 caps
Kyle Steeves (Hunter Wildfires, AU) 5 caps
Bryce Worden (West Harbour, AU) uncapped<\/p>\n
SECOND ROW
Izzak Kelly (Benfica, PO) 13 caps
Reegan O\u2019Gorman (UBCOB Ravens) 6 caps
Evan Olmstead (Agen, FR) 35 caps
Piers von Dadelszen (New England Free Jacks) 13 caps
Barnaby Waddell (Bridgend Ravens, UK) 2 caps<\/p>\n
BACK ROW
Tyler Ardron (Castres, FR) 39 caps
Mason Flesch (Chicago Hounds) 20 caps
Cody Nhanala (UBC Thunderbirds) uncapped
Sion Parry (Ebbw Vale, UK) 16 caps
Lucas Rumball (Chicago Hounds) 65 caps<\/p>\n
SCRUMHALF
Brock Gallagher (Strathcona Druids) 12 caps
Jason Higgins (Cork Constitution, IR) 27 caps
Stephen Webb (UBC Thunderbirds) 2 caps<\/p>\n
FLYHALF
Cooper Coats (UVic Vikes) 21 caps
Peter Nelson (Dungannon, UK) 35 caps
Robbie Povey (Rotherham Titans, UK) 20 caps<\/p>\n
MIDFIELD
Noah Flesch (Pe\u00f1arol, UR) 11 caps
Jacob Ince (Guelph Gryphons) uncapped
Spencer Jones (Hamilton Marist, NZ)
Josh McIndoe (UVic Vikes) uncapped<\/p>\n
OUTSIDE BACKS
Liam James (UBCOB Ravens) uncapped
Henry Kirwan (Cardiff Met, UK) uncapped
Takoda McMullin (UBC Thunderbirds) 5 caps
Kyle Tremblay (Bayside) 4 caps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Ardron has been named in the Canada squad for the upcoming Nations Cup tests against Spain, Portugal,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,224900,760,85,361771],"class_list":["post-755502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-july-internationals","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-world-rugby-nations-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}