2017 Sunwolves season

In 2017, the Sunwolves participated in the 2017 Super Rugby competition, their second ever appearance in the competition since joining in 2016. They were included in the Africa 1 Conference of the competition, along with the , and .

Personnel

Coaches and management

The Sunwolves coaching and management staff for the 2017 Super Rugby season were:

2017 Sunwolves coaches and management Position Name Head coach Assistant coaches

Squad

The following players were named in the Sunwolves squad for the 2017 Super Rugby season:

2017 Sunwolves squad Player Club Position/s Date of birth (age) Super Rugby Sunwolves Apps Pts Apps Pts Toshiba Brave Lupus Prop 14 0 14 0 Toyota Verblitz Prop – – – – Coca-Cola Red Sparks Centre – – – – NTT Shining Arcs Flanker 25 0 – – Suntory Sungoliath Centre 12 25 12 25 Tokyo Gas Fly-half – – – – Suntory Sungoliath Winger – – – – Panasonic Wild Knights Winger – – – – NEC Green Rockets Winger – – – – NTT Shining Arcs Fullback – – – – Yamaha Júbilo Flanker – – – – Yamaha Júbilo Hooker – – – – Panasonic Wild Knights Hooker 30 20 12 15 Toshiba Brave Lupus Number eight – – – – Panasonic Wild Knights Prop 11 0 10 0 Yamaha Júbilo Prop – – – – Toshiba Brave Lupus Lock – – – – NTT Shining Arcs Flanker 2 0 2 0 Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers Hooker 12 0 12 0 Takushoku University Prop 4 0 4 0 Toshiba Brave Lupus Lock 3 0 3 0 Coca-Cola Red Sparks Centre – – – – Suntory Sungoliath Lock 6 0 6 0 Panasonic Wild Knights Fullback – – – – Ricoh Blacks Rams Number eight – – – – Suntory Sungoliath Fullback 5 0 – – Toshiba Brave Lupus Prop 14 0 14 0 Yamaha Júbilo Number eight – – – – Tokai University Winger – – – – — Lock 38 10 14 5 Suntory Sungoliath Scrum-half – – – – Suntory Sungoliath Winger – – – – Canon Eagles Hooker – – – – Panasonic Wild Knights Flanker – – – – Yamaha Júbilo Lock – – – – Toshiba Brave Lupus Scrum-half – – – – NTT Shining Arcs Fly-half – – – – Toshiba Brave Lupus Lock 12 0 12 0 — Flanker 54 5 15 0 Panasonic Wild Knights Hooker – – – – Panasonic Wild Knights Fullback 9 5 9 5 NEC Green Rockets Scrum-half 11 5 11 5 Toshiba Brave Lupus Fly-half – – – – NEC Green Rockets Fly-half 15 27 15 27 Panasonic Wild Knights Scrum-half 46 10 – – Kubota Spears Fly-half 13 5 13 5 Munawata Sanix Blues Fullback 10 5 – – Toshiba Brave Lupus Number eight – – – – Coca-Cola Red Sparks Centre 13 5 – – Panasonic Wild Knights Scrum-half – – – – Canon Eagles Lock – – – – NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes Fullback 64 101 15 16 NTT Shining Arcs Number eight – – – – Coca-Cola Red Sparks Lock 87 15 – – Canon Eagles Prop – – – – Yamaha Júbilo Prop 1 0 1 0 Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers Centre 2 0 2 0 Panasonic Wild Knights Lock – – – – Yamaha Júbilo Scrum-half 10 10 10 10 Note: Players' ages and statistics are correct as of 23 February 2017, the date of the opening round of the competition.

Log

Matches

Player statistics

The Super Rugby appearance record for players that represented the Sunwolves in 2017 is as follows:

2017 Sunwolves player statistics Player name App Try Kck Pts Masataka Mikami 1 1 17 17 17 17 1 17 17 9 0 0 0 Shota Horie 2 2 2 3 0 0 0 Heiichiro Ito 3 3 18 3 18 18 18 3 8 0 0 0 Liaki Moli 4 4 4 19 4 4 4 7 1 0 5 Sam Wykes 5 5 19 4 5 19 5 4 5 4 4 5 4 13 2 0 10 Malgene Ilaua 6 6 20 6 6 5 0 0 0 Ed Quirk 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 20 9 1 0 5 Willie Britz 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 12 2 0 10 Keisuke Uchida 9 21 9 9 9 21 21 21 9 9 9 11 1 0 5 Hikaru Tamura 10 1 0 0 0 Kenki Fukuoka 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 9 4 0 20 Derek Carpenter 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 13 12 12 10 3 0 15 Timothy Lafaele 13 13 12 13 13 13 12 12 12 9 4 2 22 Takaaki Nakazuru 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 9 2 0 10 Riaan Viljoen 15 23 15 15 4 1 0 5 Takeshi Hino 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 2 2 9 2 0 10 Koki Yamamoto 17 17 1 1 1 1 17 17 17 1 17 17 1 1 14 0 0 0 Takuma Asahara 18 18 18 18 3 18 18 18 3 18 3 11 0 0 0 Kotaro Yatabe 19 19 4 5 4 4 6 0 0 0 Shokei Kin 20 7 20 7 20 7 20 7 1 0 5 Kaito Shigeno 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 7 1 0 5 Ryohei Yamanaka 22 23 23 23 23 13 13 13 23 9 1 0 5 Shota Emi 23 15 15 15 14 14 14 11 8 3 0 15 Fumiaki Tanaka 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 7 1 0 5 Hayden Cripps 10 10 10 22 10 22 10 7 1 33 38 Shuhei Matsuhashi 20 7 7 20 7 7 7 7 7 9 1 0 5 Will Tupou 22 13 22 13 13 13 23 13 8 1 0 5 Jamie-Jerry Taulagi 23 23 13 15 23 23 23 7 0 11 11 Yusuke Niwai 2 2 2 2 16 2 16 2 2 16 10 0 0 0 Yasuo Yamaji 3 3 3 3 3 3 18 3 18 9 0 0 0 Uwe Helu 5 5 19 5 5 19 5 19 5 5 10 1 0 5 Atsushi Sakate 16 16 16 2 16 5 0 0 0 Jumpei Ogura 22 22 10 22 22 22 10 23 22 9 0 20 20 Yoshitaka Tokunaga 20 6 6 6 19 20 6 1 0 5 Rahboni Warren-Vosayaco 8 8 20 20 6 20 8 7 2 0 10 Kotaro Matsushima 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 14 14 9 0 0 0 Keita Inagaki 17 1 1 1 17 1 1 7 0 0 0 Shunsuke Nunomaki 20 7 7 7 4 0 0 0 Yuki Yatomi 21 21 21 21 9 5 0 0 0 Yu Tamura 22 10 10 22 10 10 10 10 10 9 2 42 52 Takeshi Kizu 2 16 2 3 0 0 0 Teruya Goto 11 14 11 11 4 1 0 5 Shinya Makabe 19 19 4 19 4 0 0 0 Yuhimaru Mimura 20 7 2 0 0 0 Yasutaka Sasakura 11 11 23 15 4 0 0 0 Naohiro Kotaki 5 1 0 0 0 Harumichi Tatekawa 12 12 2 0 0 0 Hitoshi Ono 19 19 2 0 0 0 Rikiya Matsuda 22 22 2 0 0 0 Koo Ji-won 18 3 2 0 0 0 Yuya Odo 19 1 0 0 0 penalty try – 1 – 7 Total 15 41 108 315

For each match, the player's squad number is shown. Starting players are numbered 1 to 15, while the replacements are numbered 16 to 23. If a replacement made an appearance in the match, it is indicated by . "App" refers to the number of appearances made by the player, "Try" to the number of tries scored by the player, "Kck" to the number of points scored via kicks (conversions, penalties or drop goals) and "Pts" refer to the total number of points scored by the player.

See also

Sunwolves 2017 Super Rugby season

References