When opposition teams think about Japanese rugby – and by extension the Sunwolves – scrumming isn’t necessarily the first thing.
But the Stormers are wary of this unexpected strength as they prepare for Saturday’s meeting with the Super Rugby rookies in Singapore.
“It’s actually quite interesting that the Sunwolves are doing so well in that set-piece,” said Russell Winter, the Capetonians’ forwards coach, from the Asian city-state yesterday.
“They’ve developed a simple but effective technique of scrumming quite low. The problem for the opposition then is that they can’t get underneath the front-row and dominate.”
