Top League 2021 Playoff Tournament QF: Kobelco Steelers Vs Kubota Spears

*14-man Kubota stun lackluster champions Kobelco 23-21 to claim semi-final spot against Suntory Sungoliath. *Kobelco’s defeat ends both a remarkable 24 game unbeaten streak, and their hopes of defending their Top League crown. *Ill discipline and poor execution leave Steelers floundering against short-handed but fast, hungry, and accurate Spears side. *Kubota’s (ex-Blossoms) captain Harumichi Tatekawa

Top League 2021 Playoffs Round 2 Match Report: Kobelco Steelers Vs Mitsubishi Sagamihara Dynaboars

Comfortable Kobelco win sets up intriguing QF clash with Kubota Spears in Shizuoka. Hikaru Hashimoto scores twice in his first 2021 start as a Steeler. Kobe return to winning ways with a healthy Timothy Lafaele Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers looked much more like their usual dominant selves yesterday, as they dispatched of Mitsubishi Dynaboars 50-17

Top League 2021 Round 6 Match Report: Kobelco Steelers Vs Panasonic Wild knights

* Deluge helps to extend Wild Knights’ unbeaten run against Steelers* Daiki Hashimoto celebrates 100th Top League cap with Man of the Match* Steelers now on collision course with Red Conference giants Suntory in semis First and foremost, a huge congratulations to long-time Steeler, Daiki Hashimoto, for whom the matchup with Panasonic was his 100th

Week 5 Match Report: Kobelco Steelers Vs Yamaha Jubilo

Kobelco Steelers Overwhelm Yamaha Jubilo 53-22 in Awesome Display of Set-Piece Power and ‘Kobe Rugby’ *Kobelco run in eight tries and remain unbeaten through 5 games. Yamaha Jubilo have long enjoyed a reputation that they are possessing of a very strong set piece, particularly at scrum. Opposing teams are very wary of this in their

Top League Round 4 Match Report: Kobelco Steelers Vs Ricoh Black Rams

“From the Hottest Fire Comes the Strongest Steel” A crucible is a container in which metals are heated to an extremely high temperature in order to remove their impurities. The noun can also be used to refer to a severe test or trial. U.S playwright, Arthur Miller cleverly employed the word as the title to

Top League Round 3 Match Report: Kobelco Steelers Vs Hino Red Dolphins

Rakuhei Yamashita, Naeata Lui, and Ataata Moeakiola each scored twice, as Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers ran in a total of 8 tries to pick up their third consecutive win of Top League 2021 against Hino Red Dolphins, 52-7. The bonus point win places Kobe in second place in the White Conference, behind Panasonic Wild Knights,

Top League Round 2 Match Report: Kobelco Steelers Vs Canon Eagles

Dominant set piece, defense, and a firestorm of Kobe rugby singes the Eagles wings. Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers spoiled Ryuta Yasui’s homecoming and ran in an impressive 11 tries in a lopsided, statement making, 73-10 bonus point win at Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in their 2nd round Top league 2021 matchup. Dominant at the lineout,

Top League Round One Match Report – Kobelco Steelers V NEC Green Rockets

Kobelco Steelers open their 2021 campaign with an expected win, but NEC clearly hadn’t read the script. After exactly one year with no rugby, Top League Japan 2021 kicked off for reigning champions (and White Conference favorites) Kobe Seiko Kobelco Steelers under obligingly warm and sunny Osaka skies. 3,752 were there to watch it under

Round 6 Match Report: Kobelco Steelers Vs Toshiba Brave Lupus

Scroll down for match highlights, and comments from Wayne Smith and Andy Ellis. Anyone watching the way in which England achieved their 24-12 Six Nations victory over Ireland, with a first half of total domination in almost every area, will also then have a sense of how Top League’s reigning champion Kobelco Steelers picked up

Round 5 Match Report: Kobelco Steelers Vs Ricoh Black Rams

(scroll down for game highlights, and comments from Wayne Smith and Andy Ellis) Determination, defense, and a fine contribution from the bench lifted the Kobelco Steelers to a bonus point win over Ricoh Black Rams, 43-6, in round 5 of Top League 2020. Kobe are now one of only two unbeaten teams in the tournament