Fantastic game. Well deserved victory Japan.
Quote from: Meanwood Villa on October 13, 2019, 01:45:32 PMFantastic game. Well deserved victory Japan.Couldn't quite get that draw! Bastards!
Quote from: Axl Rose on October 13, 2019, 01:47:23 PMQuote from: Meanwood Villa on October 13, 2019, 01:45:32 PMFantastic game. Well deserved victory Japan.Couldn't quite get that draw! Bastards!Aye, my prediction of Japan winning a close one was right so you can keep the lottery numbers!
Ten years ago, Galbraith helped organise a tour of Japan for a British rugby team. A history graduate, he offered to contribute an article on the origins of Japanese rugby to the tour programme.Before he got on the case, the generally held belief was that rugby had been introduced to Japan in 1899 by two Cambridge graduates, Edward Bramwell Clarke and Ginnosuke Tanaka.But Galbraith found evidence that it had actually been played much earlier.An article dated 26 January 1866 speaks of a "football" club, as rugby was known then, founded in the port of Yokohama.That was five years before England's Rugby Football Union was founded and earlier than any known club in Wales came into existence.Thrilled to have achieved the historian's ultimate goal - finding a new source of evidence - Galbraith took his discovery of the Yokohama Foot Ball Club (YFBC) to the Japan Rugby Football Union (JRFU). But, he says, "they weren't interested" and "insisted that Japanese rugby started in 1899".And so he set out to change their mind.
Teenager Jordan Petaia will play as a centre for Australia for the first time in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final against England.The 19-year-old, who will win his third Test cap after previously featuring on the wing, partners Queensland Reds team-mate Samu Kerevi in midfield.
Was a team announced for the France game before it was cancelled ?Maybe the plan was to have played Farrell at fly-half in that game