Japan fly-half falls foul of moustache :(

Japan fly-half Ryohei Yamanaka is set to miss the World Cup after testing positive for a steroid cream used to try to grow a moustache.

Head coach John Kirwan said he expects the International Rugby Board to hand the 22-year-old a two-year ban after he failed a doping test during the Asian Five Nations in Hong Kong last month.

"He's got a hair-growth cream to try and grow a 'mo' (moustache)," Kirwan told Reuters.

"Apparently he's done that and it had a steroid in it and he didn't know.

"Which is sad because he'll get banned for sure. It threw our plans a wee bit out because ideally for the World Cup you need to take three (fly-halves).

"He'll be lucky if gets six months.

"He'll probably get two years. I spoke to him at the time. I don't think he was aware of the severity of it. We spent 24 hours trying to find out what he had taken.

"It was a little tube of hair-growth cream. He just didn't think. Apparently he has failed the (B sample) too. From what I gather he's innocent but (the IRB) take a dim view.

"The difficult thing for me is that he's a young guy we were trying to bring through, hoping to take to the World Cup,"added the former All Black player and Italy coach.

"We were hoping he was going to kick on next year."


http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3818_7001104,00.html

I heard this the other day, the poor lad must feel like a right t it.

I hope his nickname is bumfluff

That Baby Blacks out half Anscombe should try that stuff - that tache he has is an embarassment

BATH_BTGOG wrote:I hope his nickname is bumfluff

範綿毛

god knows how you say it in Japanease though!

Moments like this need a Japanese proverb:

Akinasu wa yome ni kuwasuna.
Don't let your daughter-in-law eat your autumn eggplants.


Think on.

SafeAsMilk wrote:Moments like this need a Japanese proverb:

Akinasu wa yome ni kuwasuna.
Don't let your daughter-in-law eat your autumn eggplants.


Think on.

"Wax on, Wax off" would of been better in this instance.

Alyn, you're so right

Though not from the rubbish re-make with Will Smith's son.

The only time I seen a Japanese with a moustache was pow camp commanders in old movies

Cymroglan wrote:The only time I seen a Japanese with a moustache was pow camp commanders in old movies

I'm sure the Japanease Fly Half in the 1995 World Cup game against Wales had one! As did the Full back!

You should inform the war crimes commission.

Cymroglan wrote:You should inform the war crimes commission.

Tsutomu Matsuda & Seiji Hirao guilty of having a moustache!
Whats the penalty?

Cymroglan wrote:The only time I seen a Japanese with a moustache was pow camp commanders in old movies

If the Monkey tv series is anything to go by, they seem to do better at mutton chops.

Does that stuff even work?

Countnefarious wrote:Does that stuff even work?

I hear if the moustache gets angry and has "roid rage" the person in question will talk with a Maesteg accent.
It will then insist on going to Bridgend to get drunk and fight with Pencoed lads.

Maybe he did this so he could get served beer in NZ.