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Kubota Spears

Kubota Spears
クボタスピアーズ
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Full nameKubota Spears
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Spears
Founded1978
LocationFunabashi, Chiba, Japan
Ground(s)Various stadiums
Coach(es)Frans Ludeke
League(s)Top League
2018–197th
1st kit
2nd kit

Kubota Spears is a Japanese rugby union team based in Funabashi, Chiba participating in the Top League.

Current squad

The Kubota Spears squad for the 2021 season is:[1]

Kubota Spears squad

Props

  • Japan Opeti Helu
  • Japan Gakuto Ishida
  • Japan Kota Kaishi
  • Japan Kengo Kitagawa
  • South Korea Na Kwan-young
  • Japan Shoya Matsunami
  • Japan Satoshi Saita
  • Japan Kenshi Yamamoto

Hookers

  • Japan Mitsuhisa Goto
  • South Africa Malcolm Marx
  • Japan Katsuya Okuma
  • Japan Kentaro Otsuka
  • Japan Kensuke Seki
  • Japan Hiroaki Sugimoto

Locks

  • Japan Yuki Aoki
  • South Africa Ruan Botha
  • South Africa David Bulbring
  • South Korea Kim Ho-bum
  • Japan Naoaki Horibe
  • Japan Tatsurou Konno
  • Japan Takenori Matsui

Loose Forwards

  • Japan Yuta Chiba
  • Japan Lappies Labuschagné
  • Japan Faulua Makisi
  • Japan Hisanobu Okayama
  • Japan Takeo Suenaga
  • Japan Reiichi Tamura
  • Japan Shinkou Tsuchiya
  • Tonga Finau Tupa
  • Japan Sione Vatuvei

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Daisuke Inoue
  • Japan Shunta Koga
  • Japan Ippei Okada
  • Japan Kazuhiro Taniguchi

Fly-halves

  • Australia Bernard Foley
  • New Zealand Wharenui Hawera
  • Japan Tomoki Kishioka

Centres

  • New Zealand Ryan Crotty
  • Japan Shintaro Nagatomi
  • Japan Shota Nakata
  • Japan Takuro Takahashi
  • Japan Harumichi Tatekawa (c)
  • Japan Sione Teaupa

Wingers

  • Japan Kento Iwasa
  • Japan Sur-yung Kim
  • Japan Hideto Kondo
  • Japan Yuhei Shimada
  • Japan Ryoma Shirai
  • Japan Honeti Taumohaapai
  • Japan Hiroyuki Yamasaki

Fullbacks

  • Japan Kazuhiro Goya
  • Japan Kenichirou Kuwae
  • South Africa Gerhard van den Heever
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Former players

  • Australia Joe Roff - Fullback/Wing
  • England Barrie-Jon Mather - Centre/Wing
  • New Zealand Marty Veale - Lock
  • Kōtarō Nakamura - Wing/Fullback
  • Jason O'Halloran
  • Cameron Pither
  • Shunji Ishikura - Lock
  • Joshua Fuimaono
  • Australia Justin Sampson

References

  1. ^ 選手名鑑 [Players Directory]. Kubota Spears (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 November 2018.

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