Sanyo Wild Knights

Sanyo Wild Knights

Rugby team
teamname = Sanyo Wild Knights
三洋電機ワイルドナイツ


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founded = 1960
union = Japan Rugby Football Union
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location= Ota, Gunma, Japan
coach = Katsufumi Miyamoto
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competitions = Top League
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Sanyo Wild Knights (formerly Sanyo) is a Japanese rugby union team based in Ōta city, Gunma prefecture which plays in the Top League. Inspired by Tony Brown at fly half (though he was not captain), it dominated the league in the fifth season and was the first team to be unbeaten throughout a Top League season.

Slogan for 2006 season: ADAPTABILITY

All-Japan Champions: 2008

Players

Current

*Junpei Enomoto - centre, captain
*Daniel Heenan - lock
*Ryu Koliniasi Holani - no. 8, Tongan-born Japanese citizen
*Tomoki Kitagawa - top try scorer in the fifth season of the Top League with 14.
*Philip O’Reilly - back row
*Fumiaki Tanaka - scrum-half
*Daishi Wakamatsu - back row
* [http://www.sanyo.co.jp/social/rugby/e/images_player/y_yoshida.jpgTakashi Yoshida] - full back

Past

*Tony Brown, former All Black and Otago Highlander
*Epi Taione - Tongan Centre/Wing/Flanker who has played for Newcastle, Sale and more recently Super 14 side The Sharks
*Semi Taupeaafe - former Wallabies sevens, New South Wales Waratahs and Tongan international

*Sinali Latu - now coach of Daito Bunka University R.F.C.

Coaches

*Mike Cron - All Blacks and Sanyo forwards consultant
*Katsufumi Miyamoto - head coach and former Japan player
*Gary Wallace - strength & conditioning adviser

External links

* [http://www.sanyo.co.jp/social/rugby/e/index.html Sanyo Wild Knights] - official site (English)
* [http://www.sanyo.co.jp/social/rugby/ Sanyo Wild Knights] - official site (Japanese)
* [http://www.rugbyjapan.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=326&Itemid=2 Sanyo Wild Knights win 45th All-Japan Championship] - JRFU English website


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