RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

IT’S that time again. Who deserves a jouer de rugby gallant t-shirt this week for their class and panache at RWC2019?
Japan coach Jamie Joseph was exemplary after his side’s extraordinary win over Scotland, somehow containing the joy he must have felt at a sublime performance to strike exactly the right tone when paying tribute to those in Japan who had lost their lives in the previous 24 hours as typhoon Hagibis did its worse.
Japan offered up a second candidate in prop Keita Inagaki who had to take his leave in the first half ...