The community service portion of the Five Nations Dream Tournament saw the touring clubs split into groups and sent to various Japanese public schools to do some simple rugby demos and be generally well received by attentive, engaged children. This author was dispatched with half a dozen tour mates to
Tokyo Tour Journal: Rowers take 2nd place in 5 nations dream tournament, party hard in rugby mad Japan
Tokyo’s own Superman RFC, longtime friends of Rowers Rugby, were our hosts for the “Five Nations Dream Match Tournament,” this past Saturday, an amateur event running in parallel to the World Cup. Joining the Rowers on the very level turf of the sports complex in suburban Tokyo were; New Zealand’s
Born in a crossfire hurricane: The Rowers World Cup Tour takes on Tokyo
The hard rain of Typhoon Hagibis was already driving as daylight broke over Tokyo. The England v. France World Cup Group Stage fixture that we had come for was cancelled, but the Rowers weren’t about to let mediocre costumes go to waste. In comical berets and waistcoats and bowler caps,