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) Australia Damien Hill
Team kit
2nd kit

Ricoh Black Rams is a Japanese rugby union team in the Top League. Placed 10th in the 2004-5 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 provisional Ricoh Black Rams squad for the 2016–17 Top League season is:[1]

Ricoh Black Rams squad

Props

  • Japan Takehiro Fujiwara
  • Japan Takao Makabe
  • Japan Sotaro Okawa
  • Japan Kazuhiro Shibata
  • Japan Yuta Takahashi
  • Japan Kenta Tsujii
  • New Zealand Alex Woonton

Hookers

  • Japan Kazuhiro Koike
  • New Zealand Joshua Mau
  • Japan Yuki Mori
  • Japan Yoshiyuki Takizawa
  • Japan Kan Yoshino

Locks

  • Tonga Sakura Emosi Kauhenga
  • Japan Chisei Koyama
  • Japan Pohiva Yamato Lotoahea
  • Japan Takeshi Mabuchi
  • South Africa Franco Mostert
  • Japan Tomohiro Oinuma
  • Japan Kotaro Yoshimura

Loose Forwards

Scrum-halves

  • Hong Kong Jamie Hood
  • Japan Masatoshi Nakamura
  • Japan Toshiya Takahashi
  • Japan Shota Yamamoto

Fly-halves

  • Japan Kosuke Kigami
  • Japan Ryo Tokunaga

Centres

Wingers

  • Japan Kengo Fukatsu
  • Japan Genki Hasegawa
  • Japan Shori Hoshino
  • Japan Daisuke Komatsu
  • Japan Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Samoa Tim Nanai-Williams
  • Japan Masaki Watanabe
  • Japan Toshiki Yamauchi

Fullbacks

  • Japan Takehiro Nakazawa
  • New Zealand Daniel Peters
  • Japan Takuya Takahira
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Former

Coaches

References

  1. "Ricoh Black Rams: The Team" (in Japanese). Ricoh. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
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