By: Brett Pentland-Smith Removing our braces With two 10’s tournaments kicking off our 2018-19 season, we thought it best that we have a friendly game of 15’s against an apt opponent – as discovered during the HUB 10’s just a […]
Cru’ was more agile than Swift RFC? By: Sean “Gibbo” Gibson The first competition match of the season got underway on 2018 September 16 with our first match against Swift. Having lost to them at the end of last season […]
38 degrees Celsius! By: Jon Lindsey …Or for the Americans 100 degrees Fahrenheit! In the midst of this gnarly, nasty heat four Rugby teams were competing for the prestigious Crusaders Cup (previously known as the Meat Cup). The lineup consisted […]
Son of a Beach! – Cru Go Home Early at Beach Rugby Entering the annual Beach Rugby tournament at Shonan Beach Park in Hiratsuka, a bunch of very game Tokyo Crusaders headed down early on Sunday morning – post typhoon […]
By Matt Sparrow It all seemed like history repeating itself. Last year we had turned up to the final table game against the Yellowbacks at the Rinkai ground with a team that consisted mainly of forwards – so much so […]
Tokyo Crusaders vs Aberdeen Angels 12 May, 2018 There I was…in Rey’s car…Jerry riding shotgun Rey driving. We had confirmed that the time we were shooting for was incorrect and we were to arrive at the Tatsumi station at 1400…45 […]
Tokyo Crusaders Rugby Club managed to mark their first win in the 2nd round of the Tokyo cup against Shinjuku Jack by 58-14, keeping alive their promotion hopes after an unfortunate loss on game 1 due to injuries. Round 3 […]
Frank stood in Yoyogi Park, contemplating the world around him while sipping thoughtfully on a Strong Zero. The blooming pageant of sakura crowned the trees, and some vague anxiety nagged at his heart. Perhaps it was simply that curious energy […]
Annual friendly match against Matsudo Club. Same as few years ago, kick off time set to be very early as 9:30am in East Tokyo. Despite the fact it takes early wake-up as 5:30 for some players. The team managed to […]
Crusaders Crawl Past Setagaya On a dusty Saturday on the banks of the Tamagawa, Tokyo Crusaders Rugby Club set off on the annual fixture against our good friends from Setagaya RFC. With just the bare-bones squad on hand we were […]
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