James Pritchard captained the Blues in its 125th Season – one of the most successful in its history when the side finished second in the Championship and made the playoffs semifinals and the final of the British and Irish Cup.

By the end of the 2010–11 Championship season in England he had played 33 times for Canada – 28 of them as a Bedford player – and had scored 332 international points.

Add to that 181 appearances and the second highest career total of points in 125 years – including 65 tries – and its clear he belongs among Bedfords all-time greats.

His early success convinced him to try to make the Canada squad for the 2003 World Cup and so he left Bedford to join the Prairie Fire in the Canadian Super League.

He was recalled to the Canadian team in 2006 setting a new record of 36 points in a match against the US and then played in all four pool games in the 2007 World Cup in France.

On 7 May 2011, Pritchard passed the 400 point mark for the 2010–11 RFU Championship season, the first time this has been achieved by a Bedford Blues player in their 125-year history.

Pritchard made his international debut a few months later for Canada in a non cap match against the New Zealand Maori in Calgary in July 2003 and then played in 3 capped matches in a pan American tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August before making the World Cup squad for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, where he scored conversions against Wales and Tonga.

After a few years in the rugby wilderness, Pritchard was recalled for Canada in 2006, setting a new Canadian scoring record of 29 points in a World Cup Qualifying game against Barbados.

He then surpassed that against the United States in Canada's 2007 Rugby World Cup – Americas qualification game in Newfoundland in August 2006, with 36 points from three tries, three penalties and six conversions.