League One’s third round takes place on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 January.
The top-flight opens with two early kick-offs as winless Urayasu D-Rocks (0-2) host Yokohama Canon Eagles (0-2) in Fukushima while Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Sagamihara DynaBoars (1-1) entertain unbeaten Shizuoka Blue Revs (2-0) in Tokyo.
This is followed by a double-header in the afternoon.
Ricoh Black Rams Tokyo (1-1) host inaugural League One champions Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights (2-0) in Komazawa before last season’s play-off semi-finalists Tokyo Suntory Sungoliath (0-2) face Toyota Verblitz (0-2) at Ajinomoto with both sides aiming to secure their first win of the new campaign.
On Sunday, Kieran Crowley’s in-form Mie Honda Heat (2-0) face Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay (1-1) in Mie Prefecture before champions Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo (2-0) battle Kobelco Kobe Steelers (1-1) at Ajinomoto.
League One, Division 1 teams for Round Three
URAYASU D-ROCKS v YOKOHAMA CANON EAGLES
Saturday 4 January: J Village Stadium, Fukushima Prefecture (12.00)
D-ROCKS (1-15): Hidetomo Nabeshima, Ryuji Fujimura, Sekonaia Pole, Uwe Helu, Tom Parsons, Zephaniah Tuinona, Hendrik Tui, Jasper Wiese (c), Norifumi Hashimoto, Otere Black, Caleb Cavubati, Kentaro Nanimatsu, Shane Gates, Junya Matsumoto, Takuhei Yasuda
REPLACEMENTS: Junichiro Matsushita, Yang Jung Soo, Shuhei Takeuchi, Shingo Nakashima, Brody Macaskill, Tone Tukufuka, Ren Iinuma, Israel Folau
CANON (1-15): Takato Okabe, Yusuke Niwai, Tatsuro Sugimoto, Liakimatagi Moli, Matthew Philip, Billy Harmon, Masato Furukawa, Sione Halasili, Faf de Klerk, Yu Tamura, Masayoshi Takezawa, Yusuke Kajimura (c), Jesse Kriel, Kippei Ishida, Jumpei Ogura
REPLACEMENTS: Shunta Nakamura, Sioeli Vakalahi, Shota Matsuoka, Cormac Daly, Amanaki Leleimafi, Kazufumi Yamasuga, Ryo Tabata, Viliame Takayawa
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES SAGAMIHARA DYNABAORS v SHIZUOKA BLUE REVS
Saturday 4 January: Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo (12.00)
DYNABOARS (1-15): Hayato Hosoda, Seunghyok Lee, Rento Tsukayama, Walt Steenkamp, Makoto Daniel Linde, Kyo Yoshida, Kohki Sato, Jackson Hemopo, Kota Iwamura (c), James Grayson, Satoshi Koizumi, Charlie Lawrence, Tonishio Vaiahu, Ben Paltridge, Kurt-Lee Arendse
REPLACEMENTS: Yuki Miyazato, Mototsugu Hachiya, Tomoaki Ishii, Timote Tavalea, Marino Mikaele-Tuu, Jack Stratton, Curtis Rona, Kazuki Ishida
BLUE REVS (1-15): Kenta Yamashita, Takeshi Hino, Heiichiro Ito, Eishin Kuwano, Murray Douglas, Simon Miller, Kwagga Smith (c), Malgene Ilaua, Kodai Okazaki, Kenta Iemura, Malo Tuitama, Viliami Tahitua, Sylvian Mahuza, Eito Maki, Charles Piutau
REPLACEMENTS: Richmond Tongatama, Takayoshi Mohara, Sean Vete, Yuya Odo, Vueti Tupou, Richard Goh Jones, Shuntaro Kitamura, Valynce Te Whare
RICOH BLACK RAMS TOKYO v SAITAMA PANASONIC WILD KNIGHTS
Saturday 4 January: Komazawa Olympic Park General Athletic Stadium, Tokyo (13.00)
BLACK RAMS (1-15): Kazuma Nishi, Hinata Takei (c), Paddy Ryan, Josh Goodhue, Pohiva Yamato Lotoahea, Michael Stolberg, Shuhei Matsuhashi, Liam Gill, TJ Perenara, Ichigo Nakakusu, Netani Vakayalia, Yuki Ikeda, Ryohei Isoda, Siope Tavo, Isaac Lucas
REPLACEMENTS: Ko Sato, Samuel Waqabaca, Shohei Oyama, Talau Samurai Fakatava, Otoya Kihara, Toshiya Takahashi, PJ Latu, Kotaro Ito
WILD KNIGHTS (1-15): Keita Inagaki, Atsushi Sakate (c), Taiki Fujii, Ockie Barnard, Esei Haangana, Ben Gunter, Lachlan Boshier, Jack Cornelsen, Shu Hagihara, Kyohei Yamasawa, Tomoki Osada, Damian de Allende, Dylan Riley, Koki Takeyama, Ryuji Noguchi
REPLACEMENTS: Kazuma Shimane, Craig Millar, Asaeli Ai Valu, Xavier Stowers, Ryota Hasegawa, Yuta Takagi, Vince Aso, Itsuki Onishi
TOKYO SUNTORY SUNGOLIATH v TOYOTA VERBLITZ
Saturday 4 January: Ajinomoto Stadium, Chofu (14.30)
SUNTORY (1-15): Yukio Morikawa, Kosuke Horikoshi (c), Kan Nakano, Sam Jeffries, Harry Hockings, Kanji Shimokawa, Kai Yamamoto, Sean McMahon, Yutaka Nagare, Mikiya Takamoto, Cheslin Kolbe, Ryoto Nakamura, Isaiah Punivai, Seiya Ozaki, Ryosuke Kawase
REPLACEMENTS: Kienori Go, Kenta Kobayashi, Shinnosuke Kakinaga, Saimoni Vunilagi, Tamati Ioane, Kenta Fukuda, Shogo Nakano, Taiga Ozaki
TOYOTA (1-15): Shogo Miura, Yoshikatsu Hikosaka, Genki Sudo, Richie Gray, Daichi Akiyama, Isaiah Mapusua, Kosei Miki, Kazuki Himeno (c), Aaron Smith, Rikiya Matsuda, Yuichiro Wada, Nicholas McCurran, Joseph Manu, Taichi Takahashi, Tiaan Falcon
REPLACEMENTS: Ryusei Kato, Ryunosuke Momoji, Shunsuke Asaoka, Josh Dickson, William Tupou, Kaito Shigeno, Matt McGahan, Siosaia Fifita
MIE HONDA HEAT v KUBOTA SPEARS FUNABASHI TOKYO BAY
Sunday 5 January: Mie Kotsu G Sports Forest Suzuka, Mie Prefecture (12.00)
HONDA (1-15): Tatsuhiko Tsurukawa, Koki Hida, Taiki Yoshioka, Mark Abbott, Franco Mostert, Pablo Matera (c), Waimana Kapa, Talifolofola Tangipa, Azuma Doei, Manu Vunipola, Larry Sulunga, Fraser Quirk, Johnny Faauli, Haruhiko Uemura, Lemeki Lomano Lava
REPLACEMENTS: Ikuma Yamada, Kanato Hirano, Feinga Fakai, Jan Hendrik Swanepoel, Ryota Kobayashi, Taichi Takenaka, Hayata Nakao, Tony Hunt
KUBOTA (1-15): Yota Kamimori, Malcolm Marx, Opeti Helu, David Van Zeeland, David Bulbring, Tyler Paul, Takeo Suenaga, Faulua Makisi (c), Shinobu Fujiwara, Bernard Foley, Haruto Kida, Rikus Pretorius, Sione Teaupa, Koga Nezuka, Yuhei Shimada
REPLACEMENTS: Hayate Era, Kota Kaishi, Keijiro Tamefusa, Merwe Olivier, Asipeli Moala, Bryn Hall, Tomoki Kishioka, Halatoa Vailea
TOSHIBA BRAVE LUPUS TOKYO v KOBELCO KOBE STEELERS
Sunday 5 January: Ajinomoto Stadium, Chofu (13.00)
TOSHIBA (1-15): Sena Kimura, Daigo Hashimoto, Yuta Kokaji, Jacob Pierce, Warner Dearns, Shannon Frizell, Takeshi Sasaki, Michael Leitch (c), Yuhei Sugiyama, Takuro Matsunaga, Atsuki Kuwayama, Taichi Mano, Seta Tamanivalu, Jone Naikabula, Michael Collins
REPLACEMENTS: Mamoru Harada, Masataka Mikami, Teruo Makabe, Samuela Anise, Shohei Ito, Shotaro Ikedo, Rob Thompson, Yuto Mori
KOBE (1-15): Shigure Takao, George Turner, Jiwon Gu, Gerard Cowley-Tuioti, Brodie Retallick (c), Takara Imamura, Tiennan Costley, Amanaki Saumaki, Atsushi Hiwasa, Timothy Lafaele, Kanta Matsunaga, Ngani Laumape, Michael Little, Inoke Burua, Seungsin Lee
REPLACEMENTS: Takuya Kitade, Kauvaka Kaivelata, Hiroshi Yamashita, Waisake Raratubua, Sosefo Fakatava, Daiki Nakajima, Rakuhei Yamashita, Ryohei Yamanaka
Pictures courtesy of JRLO and Honda Heat
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