Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars

Mitsubishi Dynaboars
三菱重工相模原
Full name Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Sagamihara Rugby Club
Union Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s) Dynaboars
Founded 1981
Location Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Ground(s) Mitsubishi Juko Sagamihara Ground
Chairman Shigeki Iwamatsu
Coach(es) Namio Sagara
League(s) Top Challenge League
2017 3rd
Team kit
2nd kit

Mitsubishi Dynaboars (三菱重工相模原ダイナボアーズ) also known as Mitsubishi Juko Sagamihara Rugby Club, are a Japanese rugby union team based in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The owner of this club is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

The club was founded in 1981. It came second in the Top East 10 league in 2004-5 and entered the Top League challenge series play-off.

The club won the Top East 11 league in 2006–07 and entered the Top League in 2007–08. The team was named Dynaboars (a conflation of "dynamic" and "boars") as part of their promotion to the Top League; however, they were demoted at the end of the season. The Dynaboars signed ex-Wales international and IRB World Player of the Year 2008 Shane Williams in 2012, retiring in 2014.[1]

Players

Current squad

The current Mitsubishi Dynaboars squad is:[2]

Mitsubishi Dynaboars squad

Props

  • Japan Yukihito Fujita
  • Japan Angduk Sung
  • Japan Manabu Komatsu
  • Australia Albert Anae
  • Japan Takashi Murakami
  • Japan Akihiro Ogiso
  • Japan Songyong Lee
  • Japan Ryosuke Usui
  • Japan Yuta Abe

Hookers

  • Japan Yoshimitsu Yasue
  • Japan Yuki Ando
  • Japan Yuya Otsuka

Locks

  • Fiji Deryck Thomas
  • Japan Ryoma Tokuda
  • Japan Yuta Onodera
  • Japan Takahiro Terui
  • Australia Daniel Linde

Loose Forwards

  • Japan Noriya Kobayashi
  • Japan Makoto Tosa
  • Japan Hiroki Nakamura
  • Japan Yoshiki Hika
  • New Zealand Jordan Taufua
  • Japan Genki Kitamura
  • Japan Tatsuki Tsuchiya
  • India Hrishikesh Pendse

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Kenta Nishidate
  • Japan Kosuke Enomoto
  • Japan Yuuke Hiyane
  • Japan Ippei Oshima

Fly-halves

Centres

Wingers

  • Japan Tsuyuki Kunugi
  • Japan Soichiro Tanahashi
  • Japan Keita Sekimoto
  • Japan Gousuke Kawakami
  • Japan Kanzo Nakahama
  • New Zealand Alaia'sa Roland
  • Japan Yuji Owada

Fullbacks

  • Japan Kensaku Akuta
  • Japan Kazuya Aoki
  • Japan Tsuyoshi Iguchi
  • Japan Ippei Yamamoto
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Former players

Coach

  • Scott Pierce
  • John Mulvihill
  • George Konia

References

  1. ↑ "Shane Williams: Former Wales wing announces retirement". BBC Sport. 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  2. ↑ "2018 players & staff" (in Japanese). Mitsubishi Dynaboars. Retrieved 20 July 2018.


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