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Hong Kong Head to Rugby 7s World Cup

Hong Kong heads to the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens this weekend. The San Francisco tournament has a slightly different format in that it’s a straight knockout – there are no pool games. Lose and you go home!

Ok that’s not strictly true as in the early games lose and you drop from the Cup to the Bowl/Challenge… It puts teams in a ‘must win’ mode from the first kick-off on Friday when Hong Kong face off against Russia in their first match.

Captain Ben Rimene, fullback Jamie Hood, scrumhalf Cado Lee Ka-to, flanker Toby Fenn and wings Salom Yiu Kam-shing and Max Denmark all return to action after shutting out the Cook Islands in the fifteen-a-side Rugby World Cup 2019 qualification series decider thirteen days ago.

To ease the transition back into sevens, head coach Paul John, who coached Wales to the world title in Dubai in 2009, arranged a training match with Wales earlier this week.  Hong Kong also played in the Amsterdam Sevens and Algarve Sevens earlier this summer as a build up for the world championships.

“It was always going to be a full year for a lot of the players; what with World Cup qualification, the Sevens World Cup, the Asian Games, the Asian Sevens series, and now the final stage of the World Cup repechage upcoming. We knew this was going to be the case,” said John.

“There’s a lot going on, which is exciting for Hong Kong Rugby, but a bit tricky at times. We’ve worked closely with Leigh Jones and the fifteens programme in looking at what takes priority at which times, while trying to maintain our own processes.”

“The boys have done well to get here and it is a great opportunity for us to be in the World Cup. We want to do ourselves justice,” added John.

Three of Hong Kong’s younger elite sevens programme members, Eric Kwok Pak-na, Liam Herbert and Alessandro Nardoni, are in the squad for the World Cup where Nardoni and Herbert will win their first senior sevens caps.

“This is an incredible tournament to be a part of and gives our newer boys an opportunity to play on the big stage. I think if we can relax a bit out there this weekend, they can show a bit of what they have to offer,” John said.

Herbert, Kwok and Nardoni impressed the selectors in Europe earlier this summer according to John. “Liam went away with us to Shandong earlier this year and performed well there. He backed that up in the two tournaments in Europe. He has really impressed in training and has worked really hard,” John continued.

“Alessandro also had two good tournaments in Europe. He has been in the programme for a while but hasn’t had the opportunity to play. He has it this week. Eric’s another player, like Ali, who has just missed out on selection over the last 12 months. He played well when given the opportunity in Europe and he deserves to have a go.”

Two players, former U20s captain Hugo Stiles and experienced campaigner Lee Jones, make welcome returns from injury in the time for the World Cup.

“Hugo is looking like his old self, he is a bit of a livewire as usual. He is really looking forward to it and I’m sure it is nice for him to be back playing at full fitness. He has looked good at training and we are excited to see how he performs.”

“Lee has worked really hard to come back from an Achilles injury in Singapore in 2017. He’s trained well and played well in Shandong and Europe and it is going to be good to have him back,” John added.

Jones and fellow forwards Fenn and Michael Coverdale will be essential in what is expected to be a physical challenge from Russia.

“Russia are a settled team and a World Series team and that makes them a hard prospect. They have threats all over the park from an aggressive running point of view. They are powerful and they will be direct against us, I’m sure,” said John.

“We need to use possession wisely and take our opportunities. We need to finish every possession with as many positives as possible. If we take care of the ball, we will be in with a fighting chance, but it won’t be easy.”

“Hopefully the newer guys can relax and learn from being on this stage, it will be a great development for tournaments that we have coming up,” John added.

The squad is targeting a finish in the upper bracket, which means that they must overcome Russia.

“Before we came we discussed our main objective – to win that first game. That will put us through to the top half or two-thirds of the tournament where we will be playing against the World Series teams, which will be a great preparation for us for the Asian Games.

“If we route to the bottom eight, then our objective is to win a few games and try to reach the higher end of the competition. If we lose, we cross over with Jamaica or France I think; Jamaica have a lot of athletes here and France are on the Series, so it is still playing countries that we need to and want to test ourselves against.

“Sevens is getting more and more difficult, so no matter where we are in the tournament, it will be good to test ourselves against as many teams as possible, especially those we may meet in the World Series qualification tournament in Hong Kong next year,” John said.

Hong Kong Men’s Sevens Squad (Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018)
Ben Rimene (Captain), Salom Yiu Kam-shing, Cado Lee Ka-to, Lee Jones, Toby Fenn, Hugo Stiles, Liam Herbert, Eric Kwok Pak-na, Jamie Hood, Alessandro Nardoni, Michael Coverdale, Max Denmark.

Additional reporting and images: HKRU

Cook Islands 3-26 Hong Kong @ Rarotonga

In the first ever test match between the two teams, Hong Kong claimed the upper hand in their Rugby world Cup 2019 qualification battle with the Cook Islands after a comprehensive 26-3 win in the home and away play-off.

Hong Kong ranked 21st in the world held the 54th ranked Cook Islands try-less in Rarotonga, allowing the hosts just a single first-half penalty as they took a big step towards November’s repechage tournament in France.

“It was a tough game and that was a hell of a win,” said a delighted Hong Kong coach Leigh Jones after the match. “I don’t get overly excited about things, but I think it was a historic day for Hong Kong. Cook Islands brought everyone back and they have some top quality players in that side but our performance was just outstanding.”

“Ahead of the game, we talked about every point being precious, whether we are giving them away or getting them; so that [holding Cook Islands to a single penalty] was a great credit to the boys. They wanted to keep the clean sheet and they did.” Jones added.

Canada have booked their place in the final four repechage already while Samoa have opened a big lead on Germany in another bracket. The winner of Hong Kong versus Cook Islands will join them and the winners of the Africa qualification campaign next November.

Hong Kong shrugged off the 25-hour travel to the islands as they stormed deep into Cook Islands territory from the kick-off to set up their first try. No. 8 Thomas Lamboley crossed the line in the third minute after a series of well-executed attacking phases on the hosts try line.

Flyhalf Matt Rosslee missed the conversion attempt, he missed all four of Hong Kong’s conversions, but was more accurate on his penalty attempts, slotting tough chances on either side of half time.

Hong Kong extended their lead in the 12th minute when Jack Neville took a sneaky reverse pass from centre Lex Kalecka. Cutting against the defence Neville’s run and pass put scrumhalf Liam Slatem clear in the corner, 10-0.

The Cook Islands scored their only points of the game with a penalty after Nick Hewson was penalised for sealing off the tackler on the ground. Centre Greg Mullany’s kick putting the hosts on the board, 10-3 after 23 minutes.

Moments later winger Conor Hartley served a perfect pass by Slatem allowing him to stroll across the tramlines for Hong Kong’s third try and a 15-3 lead.

Rosslee closed out the first half with a successful penalty to send Hong Kong into the break up 18-3.

Throughout the first period Hong Kong regularly exploited overlaps in the Cook Islands defence, with all of their tries coming out wide, as the forwards penetrated the hosts midfield defence, luring defenders in from the flanks to create space for the backs.

The Cook Islands put in an improved showing in the second half, aided by a swirling wind that hampered Hong Kong in the final stages.

“You couldn’t see it on TV, but there was a really strong wind and that was why it looked like it was a game of two halves,” said Jones. “It was very difficult for us to get out of our half in the second half, largely because of the wind.”

Rosslee scored Hong Kong’s first points of the second half with a second penalty to push the lead to 21-3.

The visitors added a fourth try late in the game when Max Woodward, who moments earlier had accounted for a try-saving tackle, finished off some great interplay with winger Salom Yiu Kam-shing by crossing over in the left corner.

“It was a very physical game, we were expecting that. They are a big, big side and it was a very physical out there. We have a few battered and bruised, but so have they,” said Jones.

“If we are going to get to where we want to get, we have to cope with opposition and teams like that. Today’s result shows that we are progressing and are able to cope at that next level,” said Jones.

Both sides will now journey back to Hong Kong and Jones is curious to see what the opposition’s selection will look like. “It will be interesting to see what their travel party will look like and whether some of their big names travel, but it will be a similar approach for us. It’s cup rugby and we don’t need to be too flamboyant. We just need to do what it says on the tin and play good solid, percentage rugby.”

Hong Kong v Cook Islands:
James Cunningham (Captain), Daniel Barlow, Dylan Rogers, Jack Delaforce, Nicholas Hewson, Toy Fenn, Thomas Lamboley, Liam Slatem, Matthew Rosslee, Yiu Kam-shing, Max Woodward, Jack Neville, Conor Hartley, Jamie Hood, Alexander Post, Adam Fullgrabe, Jack Parfitt, Michael Parfitt, Kane Boucaut, Cris Pierrepont, Jamie Lauder, Max Denmark, Benjamin Roberts, Lex Kaleca.

Additional reporting and images: HKRU

RWC Japan Qualification Attempt Continues Against Cook Islands

Hong Kong take on the Cook Islands in the second of three possible qualification phases for the Rugby World Cup with a home and away series on 30 June (away) and 7 July (Hong Kong Football Club). The winner advances to a four-team repechage tournament later this year to decide the 20th spot at Japan 2019.

The Cook Islands are ranked 54th in the world, 33 spots behind Hong Kong at 21 and national coach Leigh Jones was perhaps a touch overly dramatic when he said “Not to overplay it, but it’s probably one of the most important games in Hong Kong rugby history,” ahead of the team’s departure on Wednesday night.

Hong Kong’s undefeated run in the Asia Rugby Championship earlier this month marked a successful first step on the Road to 2019, but the second is shaping up to be more sizeable, starting with a 25-hour away trip to Raratonga, Cook Islands that includes a forced 10-hour stopover in Auckland.

“It’s an horrendous trip in many ways, but we are preparing well for it. The larger problem is the time. The Cook Islands are 18 hours behind us, so it throws our body clock off significantly,” said Jones

“You can go down early and acclimatize and get your body on Cook Islands time, but then you have to travel back to Hong Kong and play here seven days later, so there is a potential that we could be kind of undercooked on both ends in terms of our body clock.”

“Luke [Davey, Head of Performance at the HKRU’s Elite Rugby Programme] and our team have been planning meticulously for this for awhile. We will do our best to stay on Hong Kong time to make the home leg adjustment much easier, which throws up a lot of logistical issues for us, but we have overcome many of them,” Jones added.

During the 10-hour stopover in Auckland the team will have a training session at the Chiefs Super Rugby franchise.

“We must thank the Chiefs High Performance Manager Chris Tindall and Dave Galbraith, their Mental Skills and Leadership Coach, for their support. The Chiefs have been magnificent in arranging things on that end to make that 10 hours as palatable as possible,” Jones added.

The match kick-offs at 3pm local time, which is 9am Hong Kong time.

“We have changed our programme over the last three weeks. We have been getting up progressively earlier, so the guys were at Football Club at 7am yesterday going flat out to ensure their bodies are okay and adjusted for what is effectively a 9am kick-off,” Jones noted.

Jones is pleased with the squad’s preparations so far. “The players are ready to go. I am glad the game is this weekend, another week and the frustration may have started building, but the timing has been pretty good for us. We had a week to rest after the ARC and then two to three weeks to train and maintain intensity. We are in a good space.”

With some players under slight injury clouds and considering the lengthy travel, Jones has opted to be safe rather than sorry in taking 25 players in the travel squad with 23 set for the final selection.

The squad includes former Under 20s star hooker Alexander Post, who was capped for Hong Kong in last year’s tour to Kenya.  Post will add cover for Ben Roberts, who picked up a niggling rib injury against Korea in the final match of the Asian championship.

“We’ve probably got eight to 10 injuries, but the guys really stepped up during the ARC and proved that they’re of the quality we need. That speaks well for the programme and our approach.”

Cook Islands had a circuitous route of their own to reach this stage. They lost to Tahiti in the Oceania qualifier, but that result was later overturned after Tahiti were found to have fielded ineligible players. The turnover in teams has left Hong Kong in the dark somewhat about what they will face on Saturday.

“We are going into the unknown to a large extent,” admitted Jones. “We’ve done our research on their players and they have some quality. Guys playing Top 14 in France, Mitre Cup in New Zealand, guys who’ve played against the British Lions in Super Rugby, so it will be challenging, particularly at forward, but we are very aware of how tough it’s going to be.”

“It’s cup rugby and we’re away from home, so we need to be smart, our discipline needs to be really good, our set piece needs to function, and we need to be playing in the right areas.

“The series will be decided on aggregate points across the two games, so we need to be really smart in how we manage the game and manage the crowd on Saturday,” Jones emphasized.

Hong Kong Squad Against Cook Islands:
James Cunningham (Captain), Daniel Barlow, Jamie Tsang, Dylan Rogers, Jack Delaforce, Nicholas Hewson, Toy Fenn, Thomas Lamboley, Liam Slatem, Matthew Rosslee, Yiu Kam-shing, Max Woodward, Jack Neville, Conor Hartley, Jamie Hood, Alexander Post, Adam Fullgrabe, Jack Parfitt, Michael Parfitt, Kane Boucaut, Cris Pierrepont, Jamie Lauder, Max Denmark, Benjamin Roberts, Lex Kaleca.

Additional reporting and images: HKRU

Dragon Boat Carnival @ Central Harbourfront – 22-24 June, 2018

The ninth Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival took place on Victoria Harbour at the Central Harbourfront from the 22-24 June and featured 160 teams and over 4,500 athletes from across the globe the world – including Australia, New Zealand, France, USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Israel, Taiwan… – competing for 27 championships.

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Additional reporting and images: HK Tourism Board

Hong Kong Win Rugby League’s East Asia Cup

Historic victory for the Hong Kong Thundar 32-20 over Japan in the East Asia Cup in Tokyo. The win is Hong Kong’s first ever rugby league test victory, in only their second test match.

The game at Inagi Chuo Park in Tokyo also saw man of the match Hogan Toomalatai become the first ever Hong King international to score a hat trick.

Tries
Hogan Toomalatai (3), Gus Spence, Craig McMurrich, Ghislain Bayleyte

Conversions
Gus Spence, Richard Lindsay (3)

Hong Kong Thunder v Japan

Full back: Tommy Wong #3
Wing: Alvin Chan #16
Centre: Hogan Toomalatai #15
Centre: Ghislain Baleyte #4
Wing: Ben Mouclier #2
Stand off: Jason Fairleigh #20
Half back: Gus Spence #1
Prop: Ben Ryan #23
Hooker: Ringo Lung #7
Prop: Jack Nielsen #22
Second row: Richard Lindsay #10
Second row: Jason Yip #12
Loose forward: Alex Shvets #6

Bench
Toby Lei #18
Udo Wong #11
Alan Newsome #15
Craig McMurrich #13

Additional reporting and images: HK Rugby League

Hong Kong Win First Asia Rugby Championship!

Hong Kong won their first Asia Rugby Championship (ARC), since the inception of the new format in 2008, with a comprehensive 39-5 win over South Korea in the final game.

The win means Hong Kong have navigated the first hurdle in their bid to qualify for Rugby World Cup 2019 and progress to a home-and-away series with Oceania qualifiers Cook Islands at the end of June to decide the region’s entry into November’s international repechage stage.

An away win over Korea meant Hong Kong entered the game in a commanding position on the championship ladder only needing a losing bonus point to secure their first Asian title, but coach Leigh Jones was calling for more from his side.

“Only a win will do,” Jones said ahead of kick-off, and his squad delivered with a complete performance. Hong Kong had secured the title by half-time after collecting a bonus point for scoring four tries in the opening stanza as the hosts posted 31 points before the break.

Flyhalf Matt Rosslee opened the scoring with a penalty in the early stages as both sides settled into the encounter after a scrappy start. While unforced errors continued to plague the visitors, Hong Kong gathered momentum and confidence over a first forty minutes that saw the lion’s share of play in the Korean end.

Rosslee added the opening try in the twelfth minute, after centre Max Woodward folded the midfield defence with a thumping crash ball. Prop Dan Barlow drove the ball to the line in second phase play before setting a perfect platform for the backs with Rosslee diving across the whitewash beneath the posts. Rosslee’s conversion gave Hong Kong a 10-0 bumper before scrumhalf Liam Slatem widened the margin with the first of a brace of tries on the afternoon.

Showing great field vision and an instinctual feel for the attack, Slatem took a quick tap and run from a penalty to leave the Korean defence flat-footed and score in the right corner. Rosslee’s conversion was true as Hong Kong extended its lead to 17-0.

Salom Yiu Kam-shing added to South Korea’s misery moments later after the veteran winger perfectly judged his entry into the backline and accepted a nifty reverse pass to cross over unmolested. Rosslee maintained his perfect conversion record as Hong Kong pushed the lead to 24-0.

Korean prop Kang Taehyon was sent to the sinbin shortly thereafter for repeated infringements at the breakdown. With the man advantage, Hong Kong looked to have scored its fourth try of the half, but flanker Toby Fenn’s effort was disallowed by the television match official.

Slatem scored his second shortly thereafter, finishing off a beautiful piece of open play by Hong Kong with wing Conor Hartley showing some great hands to reel in a tough pass from Rosslee before slipping the ball to Slatem, who also juggled for control before collecting the ball at pace and darting over near the posts. Rosslee’s conversion was successful and Hong Kong took a 31-0 lead and their first Asian title into the sheds at half-time.

Hartley and Slatem were standouts in the Championship campaign, finishing as joint top try scorers with four each.

Korea returned to full strength early in the second half but another slow start saw them concede an opening penalty, which Rosslee slotted to push the lead to 34-0.

The Koreans notched their only points of the game off a scrum on Hong Kong’s 5-metre line as captain Lee Yongseung dragged several defenders over the line to avert the shutout. The conversion was unsuccessful and Hong Kong led 34-5.

A second yellow card to Korea further distorted the game, as did a series of injuries and head injury assessments, that contributed to a stop-start second half, with neither side being able to introduce any fluidity in the proceedings.

Scrumhalf Jamie Lauder eventually capped a fecund day for the home side with his try to close out the proceedings. Despite a largely forgettable second half, Hong Kong will take momentum from a near pristine opening act as they prepare for the Cook Islands in four weeks time.

“I think it was probably the most clinical first half I have seen in a very long time. Everything we did on the training field just turned up on the pitch and we went into half-time knowing the job was pretty much done,” said Jones.

“It was an outstanding performance and it speaks volumes about the attitude and preparations of the players and coaching staff this week,” Jones added.

Celebrations for a first Asian title will be short-lived as Hong Kong prepare to front up for the Cook Islands.

“First of all the guys will have a week off as it has been a tough old campaign,” said Jones. “We are a bit in the dark with the Cook Islands. We know very little about them, so we are going to have do our research now to see how to prepare for them,” he added.

The month-long layoff before the next game will help the rest of the squad get fit as well. “We had almost another full team sat in the stand who were injured today and hopefully another eight or ten of them will be ready for selection for the Cook Islands,” Jones noted. “Today we were down to the last man standing almost behind the scrum, so it will be nice to have a few selection headaches for the Cooks,” he added.

Hong Kong
15. Rob Keith, 14. Kam Shing Yiu, 13. Jack Neville, 12. Max Woodward, 11. Conor Hartley, 10. Matthew Rosslee, 9. Liam Slatem, 8. Thomas Lamboley, 7. Toby Fenn, 6. Nick Hewson, 5. Kyle Sullivan, 4. James Cunningham, 3. Dylan Rogers, 2. Ben Roberts, 1. Dan Barlow

South Korea
15. Jae Bok Lee, 14. Jeong Min Jang, 13. Seong Min Jang, 12. Seon Gu Kim 11. Nam Uk Kim, 10. Youn Hyung Oh, 9. Ki Cheol Shin 8. Yong Seung Lee (captain), 7. Injo Hwang, 6. Sung Kun Cha, 5. Jin Seok Lee 4. Seok Hwan Jang, 3. Taeh Yeon Kang, 2. Ji Hoon You, 1. Kwanyoung Na

Hong Kong Pound Malaysia 91-10 on Road to World Cup

Hong Kong put in a 13-try performance against Malaysia in their Asia Rugby Championship encounter at the Hong Kong Football Club to move one step closer to the Rugby World Cup 2019 repechage. The championship finale against South Korea is on 2 June.

Hong Kong coach Leigh Jones declared the teams intent before the match – and then his players delivered on the pitch. The 91-10 defeat of Malaysia sets the stage for Hong Kong to claim its first Asian title since 2008.

Ignoring a kickable penalty in the opening minute, Hong Kong opted to kick deep for an attacking line-out which led to the game’s first try as lock Jamie Pincott smashed over for the all important early score.

Tries flowed thick and fast after that as Hong Kong had secured a bonus point and scored five tries inside the first 20-minutes.

Winger Max Denmark also scored his first try for Hong Kong this afternoon, moments after Pincott’s effort, before Conor Hartley crossed over untouched for his first try of the game, taking a clean ball from Lauder off a Hong Kong scrum deep in Malaysian territory.

Hartley followed up his effort with his second try moments later, this time off a barnstorming run with the towering winger unstoppable in the open field.  Hartley would add his third try to start the second half and late in the match set up Lauder’s second score with another punishing run and perfectly timed offload as Hong Kong piled the points on the board.

Captain Jamie Tsang added a first half try and Hong Kong were awarded a penalty try in the opening stanza after buckling Malaysia’s scrum on the visitors try-line.

Hong Kong scored seven tries in the first half with Ben Rimene converting five and fly half Matt Rosslee a sixth (there is no conversion attempt following a penalty try). Rimene maintained his perfect record in the second half, converting all of Hong Kong’s six tries after the break, as first Hartley then lock Jack Delaforce, reserve centre Jack Neville, reserve flanker Mike Parfitt, Lauder, and prop Adam Fullgrabe all crossed the try line in the final forty minutes.

Malaysia only mustered one telling attack in the first half and No.8 Etonia Saukuru finished well off the fringes of a scrum on the Hong Kong line. Late in the match, Malaysia added a penalty.

Hong Kong’s offensive display included four debutant: scrumhalf Henry Poon and forwards Ted Soppet, Chris Pierrepont and Ronan Donnelly and coach Leigh Jones was pleased with the result as it leaves South Korea with a mountain to climb in their hopes of advancing to the Rugby World Cup play-off stages.

“We stuck to it right to the end and our fitness levels were great,” said Jones. “It was always going to be a potentially difficult game, but for different reasons. It was important we tried a few youngsters today and we did that. We challenged the guys to be professional all week and I think they were today. We came out and gave ourselves a real good points difference cushion now over South Korea.”

Captain Jamie Tsang said: “I think in terms of what we tried to get out of the game it is job done, five points and some points difference which is good to take into the Korea game.”

“In terms of Korea our set piece needs to be strong, we have to keep our structures, and we hope it’ll be like this as they have some big players. We will be structured but also look to bring some chaos into our game.”

The winner of this season’s Asian championship will advance to a home-and-away series versus Cook Islands in July to determine with the winner advancing to a final four-team qualifier in France in autumn. Today’s result leaves Hong Kong in a commanding spot on the Asian championship table with Korea all but mathematically eliminated.

“Mathematically, we just need a bonus point now to be absolutely secure [over South Korea]. But I think we want a win. So only a win will do,” commented Jones.

Hong Kong
15. Richard Cooke, 14. Conor Hartley, 13. Tyler Spitz, 12. Matthew Rosslee, 11. Max Denmark, 10. Ben Rimene, 9. Jamie Lauder, 8. Kane Boucaut, 7. Philip Whitfield, 6. Nicholas Hewson, 5. Jack Delaforce, 4. Jamie Pincott, 3. Jack Parfitt, 2. Jamie Tsang (captain), 1. Adam Fullgrabe

Malaysia
15. Mohamad Aiman Jamaluddin, 14. Samuela Tamanisau, 13. Vatimio Rabebe, 12. Atunasia Lacadamu Takubu, 11. Mohd Azmir Zanul Abdin, 10. Mohd Syahir Asraf Rosli (captain), 9. Aliff Sazrie Bn Azmi, 8. Etonia Vaqa, 7. Mohamad Syarif Saiful Aazwan, 6. Timoci Vunimoku, 5. Sae Faalupega, 4. Mohd Aliff Al Hafiz Abdul Kari, 3. Lawrence Petrus, 2. Amirul Mukminim Amizan, 1. Mohd Farid Sujari

Additional reporting and images: hkru, Asia Rugby