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With just 24 hours and counting to go …

Having yesterday seen some of the early rushes from the Channel Four documentary being made about our intrepid Rusters’ Tour de Japan I am confident that the British public will be in for a veritable treat – not to mention a suitably entertaining antidote to whatever the result of the General [...]

November 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Accepting the challenge

I had to explain certain rules and practices of international rugby to Bob Tickler who was sitting next to me for England v New Zealand. He noticed and noted Mako Vinipola and Joe Marler were encroaching on the Haka – for which England have now been fined – and I said at the time to him [...]

October 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

Five days and counting …

Hot on the back of the unexpected – I’m not going to say unintended – news that the Rust’s contingent of correspondents in Japan for the final ten days of the Rugby World Cup have been nominated for a special Pullitzer Prize for Best Foreign Coverage of a Global Event, today I thought I’d [...]

October 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

Reflections

The questions is why did the All Blacks fail to perform? Was it that England were better on the day or errors of selection and bad calls on the pitch. A bit of everything really. There seems a zest about England even when they warmed up and – when they formed the crescent against the Haka, [...]

October 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

One game at a time, of course …

As this morning it builds towards the next turn of the screw – its second semi-final between South Africa and Wales this morning – this momentous 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan with its infectious, joyous, festival atmosphere is proceeding towards its climax a week hence accompanied by a growing [...]

October 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

What an experience!

As no doubt our readers are saturated by the coverage of England’s formidable victory I thought I would today give my report on the match experience. The game was played in Yokahama, a city a 30 minute drive without Tokyo’s constricting traffic. The stadium is a modern bowl and we were [...]

October 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

The countdown commences

All week we read of historic victories over the All Blacks and how to beat them from the wiseacres. For me this is the wrong approach and only highlighting their aura of invincibility. That great producer of results Brian Clough would get the team totally drunk, tell them to play their natural game [...]

October 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Hooking up with Wayne Smith

Prior to meeting and greeting the Rust party I hooked up with Wayne in Kobe where he lives with wife Trisha and coaches the local rugby team the Kobe Steelers – so called as they are sponsored by Kobe Steel. Most of Japan’s leading clubs have powerful corporate sponsorship, a solid [...]

October 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

Upon leaving for the Land of the Rising Sun

This will be my first-ever visit to Japan – a veritable treat sprung upon me only ten days ago – and I have barely had time to leave Himself adequately set-up to run the family in my absence as I now look forward with barely-concealed excitement to seeing something of the beguiling nation that [...]

October 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

Japan -here we come

I am much looking forward to the next 10 days in Japan. The Rust party comprises Sandra, Derek and Tom to report on matters rugby and Nancy, Daffers and myself on everything else. My rugby playing experience was at my London school where I alongside other myopic, fatties and non-athletes were [...]

October 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

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