Secom Rugguts
セコムラガッツ
Full nameSecom Rugguts
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Rugguts
Founded1985
LocationSayama, Saitama, Japan
Ground(s)Secom Rugby Field
Coach(es)Wayne Love
1st kit
2nd kit

Secom Rugguts is a Japanese rugby union team founded in 1985 by SECOM. Its name is a portmanteau of "Rugger" and "Guts". The club was in the Top League for the first season of the league but was demoted at the end of the season. As the top team of the Top East league and by then coming second after Fukuoka Sanix Bombs in the three-way Top League Challenge Series, Secom got back into the Top League for the 2005-6 season but was relegated again in 2006-7.

On February 10, 2008 Secom's 3-10 loss to World Fighting Bull in the Top Challenge Two series ended its challenge to return to the Top League for the 2008-9 season.

Slogan for 2006 season: "Seize the day"

Squad

Props

  • Atsushi Yamaga
  • Kochi Nakamura
  • Takayuki Kinoshita

Hookers

  • Keisuke Ando
  • Shinji Terayama
  • Hiroshi Ebisawa
  • Tatsuji Yoshida

Locks

  • Hiromitsu Matsuba
  • Takamasa Sawaguchi
  • Takamasa Maruyama
  • Takumi Nishikawa
  • Hiroaki Tatsumichi

Loose forwards

  • Keisuke Omata
  • Daigo Fujita
  • Yosuke Watanabe
  

Scrum-halves

  • Nagamasa Miyazawa
  • Katsuya Higuchi
  • Kento Ikeda

Fly-halves

  • Sogen Masumoto

Centres

  • Takuya Himeno
  • Muso Imamura

Wings

  • Tatsunori Kojima
  • Hiromichi Ikeda
  • Hideki Ishibashi

Fullbacks

  • Yuta Kato

Notable players[1][2]

Japan

  • Motohiro Akagi
  • Kensuke Iwabuchi (Former Japan international)
  • Tomohiro Oinuma (currently playing for Ricoh Black Rams)
  • Noriyoshi Ohara (currently Iwate Morioka High School RFC coach)
  • Kota Kawashima (currently playing for Kintetsu Liners)
  • Takashi Kamio
  • Yoshiyuki Koike
  • Takamasa Sawaguchi (former Japan international)
  • Manabu Komatsu (currently playing for Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars)
  • Yuta Sato (currently playing for Kamaishi Seawaves)
  • Ken Suzuki
  • Yosuke Shishido
  • Manabu Suzuki
  • Takashi Suzuki (currently playing for Kubota Spears and Japan Sevens)
  • Naoto Tanemoto (former Rugguts coach and Japan international, Waseda University RFC coach)
  • Yoshikazu Tamura (currently playing for Yamaha Jubilo)

Other Nationalities

Murray Paul Tocker , Secom Coach 2001-2003 , (Former Wellington Lions player Marist ST Pats Player )

See also

Notes

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