2013 Pacific Nations Cup: Japan v USA

[dudeabides]

Bad time for a knock on for Suniula after Hume and he were getting so far and they were running out of defenders.

 

[usausa]

36th min JPN sub 3 Hiroshi Yamashi-ta off 18 Kensuke Hatakeyama on
38th min JPN try 6 Hendrik Tui
39th min JPN con good 15 Ayumu Goromaru

USA 15-19 Japan, 39th min

 

[usausa]

40th min USA sub 7 Peter Dahl off 19 Cam Dolan on

40+1 min scrum to USA, Petri kicks out, although messy, halftime.

USA 15-19 Japan

7' JPN try 11 Yoshikazu Fujita - USA 0-5 Japan
8' JPN con good 15 Ayumu Goromaru - USA 0-7 Japan
16' USA try 15 Chris Wyles - USA 5-7 Japan
18' USA con good 15 Chris Wyles - USA 7-7 Japan
21' USA try 3 Eric Fry - USA 12-7 Japan
23' USA con no good 15 Chris Wyles
25' JPN try 13 Male Sa'u - USA 12-12 Japan
26' JPN con no good 15 Ayumu Goromaru
31' USA pen good 15 Chris Wyles - USA 15-12 Japan
36' JPN sub 3 Hiroshi Yamashi-ta off 18 Kensuke Hatakeyama on
38' JPN try 6 Hendrik Tui - USA 15-17 Japan
39' JPN con good 15 Ayumu Goromaru - USA 15-19 Japan
40' USA sub 7 Peter Dahl off 19 Cam Dolan on
??' 22 Yuu Tamura on (missed when he came on)
--END OF FIRST HALF, USA 15-19 JAPAN--

 

[norcalbuff]

Interesting sub. Somewhat surprised not to see Dolan at 8 and Clever to openside, particularly on defensive scrums. I'm a big Dolan fan though. He isn't fully back in form coming off of his injury but he's basically a LaValla clone.

 

[dudeabides]

They say Paterson is hurting too wonder who they'd sub in for him if he can't play in the 2nd?

 

[norcalbuff]

Siddall would probably go to wing with either Scully or Kelly coming on.

 

[usausa]

41' USA sub 11 James Paterson off 23 Blaine Scully on

 

[usausa]

44' JPN try 14 Toshiaki Hirose - USA 15-24 Japan
45' JPN con no good 15 Ayumu Goromaru

 

[usausa]

Penalty, Tanaka calls for scrum but Hirose wants points...ref listens to Tanaka since he called it first...almost a pushover try...pemalty, another scrum...knock on by Kikutani (not called by ref) but then USA knocks on, another scrum 5m out for JPN...another USA penalty, how has a penalty try not been awarded yet...scrum again...there we go, JPN finally get a penalty try, Andrew Suniula had to hop into scrum at blindside, almost pushed over but USA penalized at scrum again

50' USA YC 3 Eric Fry (repeated infrigement at scrum I think)
50' USA 17 Nick Wallace on 19 Cam Dolan off
53' JPN try 24 Penalty try - USA 15-29 Japan
53' JPN con good 15 Ayumu Goromaru - USA 15-31 Japan
54' JPN sub 19 Shinya Makabe on, 4 Hitoshi Ono off

 

[norcalbuff]

Blown call on the knock on leads to a yellow card and a penalty try. Bull****.

 

[dudeabides]

2nd half looking like a whole different match.

 

[usausa]

USA scrum now just getting wrecked, Japan just embarrassing them right now.

 

[usausa]

Brian Doyle down, leg injury of sorts. 5m scrum in USA end for USA in 61', Fry should be back on now.

61' USA sub 19 Cam Dolan on 17 Nick Wallace off
61' JPN sub 20 Justin Ives on 5 Shoji Ito off

 

[usausa]

62' JPN try 9 Fumiaki Tanaka - USA 15-36 Japan
63' JPN con good 15 Ayumu Goromaru - USA 15-38 Japan

 

[norcalbuff]

It's not a new problem, but someone has to ask Tolkin what his plan is to deal with our scrum woes. It's absurd how bad it is. USA Rugby should take the money they're saving by having him as coach instead of an EOS type and use it to lure our US-eligible pro props in Europe.

 

[usausa]

65' USA sub 16 Zach Fenoglio on 2 Chris Biller off

 

[usausa]

68' USA try 14 Luke Hume - USA 20-38 Japan (nice combo from my club mates at Old Blue RFC of NY!)
69' USA con no good 15 Chris Wyles
71' USA sub 21 Robbie Shaw on 9 Mike Petri off
71' USA sub 22 Seamus Kelly on 12 Andrew Suniula off

 

[dudeabides]

Yep, USA back on the board but still down by more than 2 tries. Nice work by Hume picking up his own kick.

 

[usausa]

73' JPN sub 21 Atsushi Hiwasa on 9 Fumiaki Tanaka off
73' JPN sub 17 Yusuke Nagae on 1 Masataka Mikami off
74' USA sub 18 Phil Thiel on 3 Eric Fry off

 

[usausa]

76' USA sub 20 Liam Murphy on 5 Louis Stanfill off