14 September Forwards and backs split for a half time talk in the Captain's Run at the Kamiigusa Ground, the site of Sunday's match verses Waseeda University. The Blues were glad to arrive at the site of their first game today for a final run through ahead of the match on Sunday afternoon. The squad are playing against Waseeda University at the Kamiigusa Ground in Tokyo, and were met their by hordes of screaming fans, and some rather sombre looking sumo-type Waseeda players. A number of the Japan veterans in the squad from the 2000 trip were noted to comment that the Japanese appeared to have 'grown' since we last saw them, it could have something to do with the rather space age gym which was apparent at the ground, and in to which went Coach Brett Robinson. The coach was spotted by a number of players to be doing rather rugby specific 'squat jumps' after training which was met with cries of, 'the guy has got to let it go'! David Lubens, a veteran Australian who played against the Lions in 2001, goes up to take a lineout in training Training went well, with a significant crowd of local Japanese in attendance, including some in Waseeda shirts who appeared to be scribbling very fast in to their note books for some reason... Wellsy's manic depressive haka failed to catch on as quickly as he hoped. Llewllyn Ap Gwilym, is well noted as the fashion guru of the squad, but putting on a pair of white boots just to match his new white knee support was seen as taking it a little too far. Here he appears in the 2002 autumn collection training shirt. Fortunately 'Wellsy' as he has conveniently become known by the boys in the squad (owing to the apparent impossibility of being able to shout his 30 syllable name quickly in a match to get his attention) has not yet been spotted out without his shirt on - we don't think that the Japanese girls could handle it if this David Beckham wannabee was released on to the town so soon after the World Cup.