North Amer­i­can and Caribbean Rug­by As­so­ci­a­tion (NACRA) 15s de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons T&T will face Guyana in a South Zone sec­ond round fix­ture to­day at St. Mary's Grounds, Ser­pen­tine Road, St. Clair, to­day at 4 pm. The na­tion­al team is fresh off of last Sat­ur­day's 17-10 away win in Bar­ba­dos and will be look­ing to seal an­oth­er win over sec­ond seed­ed ri­vals Guyana, who are still feel­ing the ef­fects of a NACRA Caribbean Cham­pi­onships 2008 fi­nal 40-24 to the Ca­lyp­so War­riors in the Cay­man Is­lands.

Be­fore the Guyanese team left to trav­el to T&T, head coach said, "We are go­ing in­to the Li­on's den (Trinidad) with one thought in mind. My play­ers are ready to rum­ble. We want it bad. Our ob­jec­tive is to beat T&T. We want the num­ber one rank­ing (Caribbean 15s) to add to out sev­ens rug­by crown. The play­ers un­der­stand (that) they are rep­re­sent­ing the Guyanese peo­ple, our coun­try and our flag. Our goal is to go all the way to the fi­nal and lift the crown."Like the T&T squad, Guyana's team fea­tures both un­capped and vast­ly ex­pe­ri­enced play­ers.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease by the Guyana Rug­by Foot­ball Union (GR­FU), the Na­tion­al 15s squad have been in in­ten­sive train­ing for the past four weeks af­ter the William Black­man 15s Cup Com­pe­ti­tion which was won by the Pep­si Hor­nets. The 2011 NACRA Caribbean Cham­pi­onships are sep­a­rat­ed by North and South Zones with the win­ner of each play­ing zone play­ing the oth­er for the Cham­pi­onship ti­tle. The Ca­lyp­so War­riors have been crowned Caribbean cham­pi­ons on sev­en oc­ca­sion since 1967 and have been crowned in the South Caribbean Rug­by Cham­pi­onship in 1999.