President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union Ryan Dey says plans are on stream for a revamp of the country national ruggers come next year following a below average showing at the last regional championship this year in Trinidad.
According to Dey, “For the Green Machine 2025, we are going to diffidently regain the RAN championship. With teams such as the USA and Canada not coming to RAN [Rugby Americans North] next year, we might see some changes in personnel when it comes to team selection.”
Guyana’s finished seventh in the RAN’s Sevens tournament in Arima in November.

The national rugby side was led by Godfrey Broomes with standout performer Lionel Holder as Vice-Captain.
Despite being named skipper, winger Broomes barely had any playing time in the competition under Head Coach Claudius Butts in a unit which Dey says under-performed considering its strength.
“We didn’t do as well as we wanted, so again it’s back to the drawing board, the union has not met as yet to decide what we are going to do but diffidently, I’m sure we all want to go in a different direction when it come to our 7’s team,” he added.

The former national player turned administrator Dey says that they also have some friendly international series with fellow Caribbean nations while also aiming to ramp up their domestic season next year.
“For local tournaments, we are trying to get a lot more local tournaments to make players game ready, when that time comes for the RAN 7’s, we are also trying to go to either Barbados or Trinidad to have a 15’s competition, in maybe April.”

He said while some effort was made over the past year, more investment is also needed in the youth and women programs, adding, “We are planning on going into four schools for 2025, so we can have a growing grass root program, we already have some women lined up that were training with the 7’s

team which we hope to continue and grow.”