May 16, 2006

Gaijin Whacked by Wakasugi

April 23rd – First round of Tokyo Cup - Wakasugi 24 TGRFC 10

 

      The Tokyo Gaijin Rugby Football Club (TGRFC) gathered together at Kizoochi Field for their first round game of the Second Division of the Tokyo Cup. For the uninitiated, the Tokyo Cup is a 4 Division League, which is not even played in Tokyo, but further north in Saitama Prefecture. The competition is not cheap to enter and has always been a knockout competition in the past (and still is in the lower divisions) so if you lost the first game you rarely got value for your yen.

March 1, 2006

Tokyo Champions’ Cup – First Round

Dasewa (Toshima League) 27 Tokyo Gaijin (Shuto League) 40 

 

On 29th January, the Tokyo gaijin RFC gathered at Shinshibamata to play against Dasewa, the champions of the Toshima League. We were filling in for  the Tokyo Crusaders as champions of the Shuto League. The Crusaders had a lot of their players in Bangkok for the Bangkok 10`s and as runaway winners of the second division in our first year in the Shuto League, we had the blessing of the League's higher powers to take their place.

 

February 6, 2006

Gaijin At The Double

Ichihara RFC 12 Tokyo Gaijin 27

29/01/06

 

The Gaijin were confirmed as unbeaten Ichihara League Champions with this hard-fought win over the battling Ichihara Club from Chiba.  The Gaijin, on paper at least, had a good side out and the conditions were perfect on everyone's favourite concave pitch for some grandstand running rugby.  Instead, the first five minutes were notable for Mark Pearson murdering his opposite number at the pit-head of the set scrums.

 

February 6, 2006

This Time The Gas Company Pays

15/01/06

TGRFC 28 v Idemitsu Oil 10

at Anegaski in the middle of an oil refinery

 

In a turnaround on recent current events it was the Idemitsu team that would end the day in the red, as they failed to match the increase in points that TGRFC community action force managed to put on the board.

 

It was a long trip for some out to Anegasaki in the middle of godforsaken dog rape Chiba.  Some of the team members were up at the crack of dawn along with the service station attendants just to be at the meeting place on time.