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The league matches of Super rugby has finished. Regrettably, the team are in the lowest rank of SR this season. I think their poor results was caused by the balance between the team and so-called "Wolf Pack", team B of Japan (Brave Blissoms). Above all, Japan should get good results in the World Cup as the host country next autumn so it needed to strengthen Japan most of whose players also play for the SunWolves. It's one of the reason why the Sun Wolves couldn't play well.
Needless to say, there are some players who displayed their talents includes Luke Thompson in this year's SR. Thompson who is 38 years old once decided to return to his mother country New Zealand but joined the Sun Wolves last January. Not only Thompson but other players as Semisi Masirewa, Hayden Parker, Fumiaki Tanaka, Gerhard van den Heever, Kazuki Himeno, Kenki Fukuoka and Michael Leitch did their best. though next year's SR will be the last chance for the team, the JRFU must decide how to strengthen the team and Japan after the World Cup immediately. And it also needs to promote TOP League more than before.
The national squad at training camp in Miyazaki
(From the official website of the JRFU)
And a bad news. Ryōta Kabashima who plays for TOYOTA Verblitz was arrested because of the illegal possession of cocaine. The Verblitz announced that they would withdraw from the TOP LEAGUE CUP that will start on the 22nd of June.
