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The cap – Wolves-of-sun coach Tony Brown has named an initial team for the Super Rugby competition next season.
There are four South Africans in the team of 29 men – before utility Grant Hattingflank Lappies labuschagne, prop Hencus van Wyk and wing Gerhard van den Heever.
With less than 30 players named, we expect more players from Japan Test currently out of play to be added once the contracts are complete.
Japan coach Jamie Joseph, who stepped out of the Sunwolves role to prepare for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, told the Kyodo News website"We are going to run two programs, the Sunwolves and a larger group that will play the second Super Rugby XV.Japan can not prepare properly for the World Cup without the Sunwolves."
Thus, about 60 players will eventually be available for the Sunwolves, while Brown and Joseph will try to put the best Japanese players to their best form by September 2019, at the kickoff of the Rugby World Cup in Japan.
Brown added that the group would be "good enough to make a place in the playoffs".
"We want to play Japanese rugby, which is an expansive style with a lot of skill and speed, and which is based on unstructured rugby," said Brown, whose brother Cory joins the team in as an attacking coach alongside Marty Veale, new melee coach.
"The players we have added are the right players to play our rugby style and will contribute to our game, experience and leadership."
Brown announced that they would participate in two training camps, one in Japan and the other in Australia, with a warm-up match before their first Super Rugby match against the Sharks in Singapore on February 16th.
The Sunwolves team:
Before
Keita Inagaki, Asaeli Ai Valu, Koo Ji Won, Hencus van Wyk, Craig Millar, Atsushi Sakate, Jaba Bregvadze, Shota Horie, Grant Hattingh, Kazuki Himeno, Hendrik Tui, James Moore, Tom Rowe, Ed Quirk, Ed Quirk, Dan Ley , Pieter "Lappies" Labuschagne
Back
Kaito Shigeno, Fumiaki Tanaka, Yutaka Nagare, Hayden Parker, Rikiya Matsuda, Ryoto Nakamura, Phil Burleigh, Michael Little, Rene Ranger, Loman Lava Lemeki, Jason Emery, Gerhard van den Heever
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