Ricoh Black Rams

Ricoh Black Rams
リコーブラックラムズ
Full name Ricoh Black Rams
Union Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s) Black Rams
Founded 1953
Location Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Ground(s) Various stadiums
Coach(es) Matt Cockbain
League(s) Top League
2017–18 7th
1st kit
2nd kit

Ricoh Black Rams is a Japanese rugby union team in the Top League. Placed 10th in the 2004-2005 season which meant it had to win a play-off against one of the top regional teams to stay in the league, as it did.

Slogan for 2006 season: TAFU ("Tough" in English). The acronym stands for Team, Aggression, Faith, Unity.

In January 2008 it was announced that Stephen Larkham will be joining the team next season, but the team was relegated back to the Japan East League where Larkham will begin his career in Japan. In April 2008 Todd Louden was announced as head coach, to be assisted by Pote Human (Daily Yomiuri, April 26, 2008).

Schedule/Results

2005

February 13. Ricoh Black Rams v Toyota Jido Shokki - placed third in the Top League Challenge Series.

Players

Current squad

The current Ricoh Black Rams squad is:[1]

Ricoh Black Rams squad

Props

  • Japan Taichi Chiba
  • Japan Takehiro Fujiwara
  • Japan Takao Makabe
  • Japan Kazuma Nishi
  • Japan Sotaro Okawa
  • Japan Kazuhiro Shibata
  • Japan Kenta Tsujii
  • New Zealand Alex Woonton
  • Japan Kotaro Yoshimura

Hookers

  • Japan Kazuhiro Koike
  • New Zealand Joshua Mau
  • Japan Yuki Mori
  • Japan Masashi Onishi
  • Japan Kan Yoshino

Locks

  • Japan Chisei Koyama
  • Tonga Pohiva Yamato Lotoahea
  • Japan Takeshi Mabuchi (c)
  • Japan Tatsuhiro Nagai

Loose Forwards

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Masatoshi Nakamura
  • Japan Toshiya Takahashi
  • Japan Shota Yamamoto
  • Japan Ryuji Yonemura

Fly-halves

  • Japan Toshiki Hamagishi
  • Japan Kohei Horigome
  • Japan Kosuke Kigami

Centres

Wingers

  • Japan Kengo Fukatsu
  • Japan Genki Hasegawa
  • Japan Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Fiji Netani Vakayalia
  • Japan Masaki Watanabe
  • Japan Toshiki Yamauchi

Fullbacks

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Former

Coaches

References

  1. ↑ "Ricoh Black Rams: The Team" (in Japanese). Ricoh. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
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