Asia Rugby Championships (Men) Hong Kong vs Japan
Hong Kong coach Leigh Jones was philosophical about the result saying, “Japan had too much power and pace and their ability to perform the skills under that level of intensity was better than ours. We need to continue to work at our set piece and our scrum has got to get better. We also need to work more on getting across the gain-line and putting a dent in their defence. On the odd occasion that we did that they looked reasonably vulnerable, but we just can’t do it often enough at the moment. “But that’s our challenge. We’re six months into professionalism in our fifteens set-up and that's where we need to get to,” said Jones. Our men will be traveling to South Korea next week for their second match of their 2016 ARC campaign. Let's go Hong Kong