Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars

Mitsubishi Dynaboars (三菱重工相模原ダイナボアーズ) also known as Mitsubishi Juko Sagamihara Rugby Club, are a Japanese rugby union team based in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The owner of this club is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars
三菱重工相模原
Full nameMitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Sagamihara Rugby Club
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Dynaboars
Founded1981
LocationSagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Ground(s)Mitsubishi Juko Sagamihara Ground
ChairmanShigeki Iwamatsu
Coach(es)Glenn Delaney
League(s)Japan Rugby League One
20223rd
Promoted to Division One
Team kit
2nd kit

The club was founded in 1981. It came second in the Top East 10 league in 2004-5 and entered the Top League challenge series play-off.

The club won the Top East 11 league in 2006–07 and entered the Top League in 2007–08. The team was named Dynaboars (a conflation of "dynamic" and "boars") as part of their promotion to the Top League; however, they were demoted at the end of the season. The Dynaboars signed ex-Wales international and IRB World Player of the Year 2008 Shane Williams in 2012, retiring in 2014.[1]

Players

Current squad

The Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars squad for the 2023 season is:[2]

Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars squad

Props

  • Japan Yu Chinen
  • Japan Mototsugu Hachiya
  • Japan Hayato Hosoda
  • Japan Naoki Kawamata
  • Japan Jun Morimoto
  • Japan Akihiro Ogiso
  • Japan Shunsuke Sakamoto
  • Japan Kanzo Schinckel

Hookers

  • Japan Taiji Machino
  • Japan Yuki Miyazato
  • Japan Atsuro Nakamura
  • Japan Yuya Otsuka
  • Japan Ryuta Sagara
  • Japan Kakeru Umemoto
  • Japan Yoshimitsu Yasue

Locks

Loose forwards

  • New Zealand Heiden Bedwell-Curtis
  • Japan Koki Hattori
  • Australia Daniel Linde
  • Japan Yusuke Sakamoto
  • Japan Shinya Tanaka
  • Australia Timote Tavalea
  • Japan Makoto Tosa
  • Japan Masataka Tsuruya

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Ryuta Nakamori
  • Japan Ippei Oshima
  • Japan Ryoto Shibata
  • Japan Taichi Takahashi

Fly-halves

Centres

Wingers

  • New Zealand Roland Alaia'sa
  • Japan DJ Kashima
  • Japan Gosuke Kawakami
  • Japan Tomoyuki Ochiai
  • New Zealand Ben Paltridge
  • Japan Keita Sekimoto
  • New Zealand To'o Junior Vaega
  • Japan Ippei Yamamoto

Fullbacks

  • Japan Kensaku Akuta
  • South Korea Han Jon-Mun
  • Japan Satoshi Koizumi
  • Japan Kento Nakai
  • Japan Nozomi Nara
  • Japan Yu Okudaira
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Former players

Coach
  • Scott Pierce
  • John Mulvihill
  • George Konia

References
  1. "Shane Williams: Former Wales wing announces retirement". BBC Sport. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  2. "2018 players & staff" (in Japanese). Mitsubishi Dynaboars. Retrieved 20 July 2018.


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