Japanese Rugby

Bovidae

Kobelco doesn't have many non-Japanese players while Panasonic is stacked.

Dice

@bovidae said in Japanese Rugby:

Kobelco doesn't have many non-Japanese players while Panasonic is stacked.

If you count the 3 Asians who aren't Japanese, then Kobelco only has 3 less non-Japanese.

Bovidae

@dice Sure there are a couple of South Koreans. Maybe Franklin, Cowley-Tuioti and Buckman are all injured.

Duluth

Tim

Crucial

@tim said in Japanese Rugby:

That is pretty unbelievable. Look how far back the kicker was and even the gap as he shapes to kick. The final burst from the charger was incredible, not to mention that he caught it.

Stargazer

These games are televised in NZ:

Saturday, 5 Feb 2022 - kick-off 6.30pm NZT - Sky Sport 3:
Shining Arcs Tokyo-Bay Urayasu v Saitama Wild Knights

Sunday, 6 Feb 2022 - kick-off 6.30pm NZT - Sky Sport 1:
Green Rockets Tokatsu v Kobleco Kobe Steelers

Shining Arcs Tokyo Bay:
1-Kabuto Anoku 2-Ryo Miura 3-Shotaro Hirai 4-Kim Ryong Ji 5-Sam Jeffries 6-James Moore 7-Shokei Kin 8-Jimmy Tupou

9-Atsushi Yumoto 10-Otere Black 11-Tasuku Koizumi 12-Taiji Hongo 13-(c) Shane Gates 14- Kai Ishii 15-Israel Folau

Reserves: 16-Syuhei Takeuchi 17-Ryutaro Ueda 18-Rui Sannomiya 19-Hiroyuki Mezaki 20-Alexander Mackenzie 21-Greig Laidlaw 22-Ryo Tsuruda 23-Tone Tukufuka

Saitama Wild Knights:
1-Keita Inagaki 2-(c) Atsushi Sakate 3-Shohei Hirano 4-Jack Cornelsen 5-Mark Abbott 6-Ben Gunter 7-Lachlan Boshier 8-Shota Fukui

9-Keisuke Uchida 10-Rikiya Matsuda 11-Marika Koroibete 12-Vince Aso 13-Dylan Riley 14-Koki Takeyama 15-Ryuji Noguchi

Reserves: 16-Shota Horie 17-Yusuke Tokota 18-Asaeli Ai Valu 19-Ryota Hasegawa 20-Shunsuke Nunomaki 21-Taiki Koyama 22-Hadleigh Parkes 23-Semisi Tupou

Green Rockets Tokatsu:
1-(c) Sunao Takizawa 2-Miyu Arai 3-Takahiro Doi 4-Daiki Yamagiwa 5-Jake Ball 6-Kavaia Tagivetaua 7-Tatsura Owada 8-Whetukamokamo Douglas

9-Fumiaki Tanaka 10-Fletcher Smith 11-Kentaro Kodama 12-Tim Bennetts 13-Lomano Lava Lemeki 14-Teruya Goto 15-Tom Marshall

Reserves: 16-Ash Dixon 17-Gakuto Ishida 18-Taku Toma 19-Taku Hirosawa 20-Rikiya Oishi 21-Keisuke Yamada 22-Hiroyuki Miyajima 23-George Risale

Kobleco Kobe Steelers
1-Isileli Nakajima 2-Hirotaka Hirabara 3-Koo Ji Won 4-JD Schickerling 5-Naohiro Kotaki 6-Takara Imamura 7-(c) Daiki Hashimoto 8- Jang Seok Hwan

9-Atsushi Hiwasa 10-Lee Seung Sin 11-Rakuhei Yamashita 12-Richard Buckman 13-Timothy Lafaele 14-Ataata Moeakiola 15-Shinsuke Iseki

Reserves: 16-Wang Kyung Mun 17-Koki Yamamoto 18-Kosuke Oike 19-Shohei Maekawa 20-Hikaru Hashimoto 21-Daiki Nakajima 22-Taihei Kusaka 23-Kosuke Naka

Tim

https://twitter.com/FreemanrugbyJPN/status/1492427824896290817?s=20&t=k3qTz4_dj_v66IRuoIqk5Q

bayimports

Could have gone in a few threads, even potentially freak thread, Super Bowl played in Japan lol

https://twitter.com/quadecooper/status/1492457689787793410?s=21

voodoo

A @booboo just doesn't get any better than consecutive posts

booboo

@voodoo said in Japanese Rugby:

A @booboo just doesn't get any better than consecutive posts

Thats #booboo please.

A day apart.

That's Olympic level #booboo -ing.

bayimports

@voodoo said in Japanese Rugby:

A @booboo just doesn't get any better than consecutive posts

Didn’t even notice on mobile but not something I’m going to delete ha ha

Is there a fernie for best boo-boo?!

voodoo

@bayimports said in Japanese Rugby:

@voodoo said in Japanese Rugby:

A @booboo just doesn't get any better than consecutive posts

Didn’t even notice on mobile but not something I’m going to delete ha ha

Is there a fernie for best boo-boo?!

If not, there should be!

gt12

@voodoo said in Japanese Rugby:

A @booboo just doesn't get any better than consecutive posts

New award?　Or, is there already a best booboo?

Higgins

This might give those thinking of backing a Joseph/Brown combo to replace I. Foster as AB coach something to think about when they look at who Joseph/Brown have recruited into their Brave Blossoms coaching team
https://www.wasps.co.uk/news/john-mitchell-to-support-japan-as-defence-coach/?fbclid=IwAR3gmmgeRAkJGrZ-yN2IzNYFYPfJ8RnUha4f-Ns7TkeK5-iysIa930nYNgI

cgrant

@higgins
Mitchell did a very good job for England as a defence coach.

Crucial

Caught up with some DMac highlights on Youtube. He's having a field day at this level.
Looking like peak Super Rugby DMac without the crazies. Must be loving it.
Some of his passing touches are sublime and at this level he gets that extra split second to evade people.
They'll be thinking he's worth every Yen plus more.