Mark Pickering 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇯🇵🎙

Welshman. Freelance Sports Writer/Broadcaster ✍️ @rugbyjpcom @ufc @allblacks @rugbypass🎙@daznboxing💼 Freelance Work enquiries: mppickering @ hotmail . com

[Yoshiki Inamura @noah_yoshiki]

藤田和之と戦いたいです

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🇹🇴 Tonga legend Siale Piutau, 40, planning for 22nd season in rugby

👉 https://t.co/1ueB310ozV

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🇯🇵 Exclusive - Japan starlet Yoshitaka Yazaki cuts short Australia stay due to injury

👉 https://t.co/JVZpVjOIL3

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🇿🇦 Jesse Kriel: I won't leave Japan until I win the title

👉 https://t.co/7Fxu2uPP1I

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❤️ "You'll never ever know how much you've done for me."

A special surprise for Larry, the heartbeat of clubs like @pencoedrfc

This @VolunteersWeek, we're celebrating every unsung hero just like him 🤝

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🏆 Dave Rennie's Kobe Steelers ran riot against Suntory Sungoliath in Saturday's semi-final

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🥊 FIGHT WEEK IN TOKYO! 🔥

4️⃣ The Final Four:
🇯🇵 Kento Haraguchi
🇯🇵 YURA
🇹🇭 Petpanomrung Kiatmuu9
🇵🇹 Miguel Trindade

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#LASTFWSTANDING

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There is no delay - after finishing top & going straight to the semi-finals, Kobe was always playing next weekend. Either in Saturday's 3rd place play-off or Sunday's final

After storming past Suntory on Sat, they will face Kubota in the final

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Kubota’s Frans Ludeke on Malcolm Marx’s injury scare as he was replaced at HT:

“We don’t want to say too much. The medical team has a big job with Malcolm (before the final). We are positive. If he’s not fit the next player will step in. That’s how you win trophies”

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Congratulations to ex-Pontypool centre Scott Pierce, a stalwart of the Japanese game, who has led Secom Rugguts to promotion to D2

Toutai Kefu’s Kamaishi Seawaves drop to D3 after losing the two-leg relegation play-off on aggregate

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@Chi94112353 The fishing photo he posted was an old one

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🏉🤼 Saturday

🏆 Back at Chichibu today for the second semi-final as Saitama faces Kubota

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🏆 Matchday in Tokyo

🔵🟠Who advances to face Kobe in the final next Sunday?

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[中嶋勝彦 Katsuhiko Nakajima @Katsuhiko_N311]

XXSTYLEのその先へ
KEEP YOUR EYES ON ME

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🇯🇵 #BREAKING Naoto Saito will leave Toulouse at the end of the season, the club has announced

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#Top14

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🏆 Kobe head coach Dave Rennie on next week's final:

"We’re excited to be scrapping it out for a title next week but we’ll refine things next week as opposed to training more. The boys will have tomorrow and Monday off and we’ll start preparing on Tuesday."

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🇿🇦 EXCLUSIVE - Shizuoka captain Kwagga Smith has had knee surgery this week & has started his recovery

As previously reported, the injury occurred in their last game of the season v Yokohama. A game Smith scored in & they won 42-15

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🏆 Dave Rennie’s starting tighthead prop at Kobe, Hiroshi Yamashita, 40, is older than his semi-final opponent Suntory’s head coach Kosei Ono, 39.

They played together for Japan

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