TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan's fairytale run to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals was a highlight of last year's tournament but with the afterglow all but gone captain Michael Leitch fears not enough is being done to secure the Brave Blossoms a place at the game's top table.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - Japan's fairytale run to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals was a highlight of last year's tournament but with the afterglow all but gone captain Michael Leitch fears not enough is being done to secure the Brave Blossoms a place at the game's top table.
"To get to that point took a lot of hard work, four years of hard work, and we did that for a short period," Leitch told Reuters last month in the coffee shop he owns on the outskirts of Tokyo. Since then, however, the Top League had returned to normal, meaning the players would only be available to Japan for short periods before test matches.
"It is very disappointing," Leitch said."It was such a great tool for us to develop good Japanese players, and for us to not be a part of that next year ... I don't know how else we are going to develop good Japanese players."
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