Malcolm Marx was front and centre of Kubota Spear’s victory over the Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars in the Japan Rugby League One on Saturday.

The DynaBoars opted to rest Springboks star Kurt-Lee Arendse for the fixture and despite the 33-5 hammering, it was probably a good call as it was a forward-focused battle in Chiba with Kubota comfortably coming out on top.

Kubota steamroll DynaBoars

Faulua Makisi, Marx, Lappies Labuschagne, Shinobu Fujiwara and Gerhard van den Heever all grabbed five-pointers for Frans Ludeke’s team with all five tries the result of utter domination up front.

It took just three minutes for Kubota to really flex their dominance as Kubota decimated the DynaBoars at a scrum five metres away from the try with Makisi simply picking up the ball before dotting down.

Five minutes later and Kubota recreated the Springboks‘ famous driving maul against Japan at the 2019 Rugby World Cup as they gained a mammoth 40 metres.

In the clash against the Brave Blossoms, the Springboks managed to score as Marx broke off the back, drew in a defender before offloading to de Klerk but unfortunately, this time around there was no five-pointer after the insane drive.

The DynaBoars scrambled just enough to hold up the Spears at the last minute but that mattered little as Kubota would get a try from the rolling maul from the next lineout after earning a penalty and it was Marx who came up with the ball.

Their third try was a similar story as Labuschagne came up with the ball over the line after the Spears had survived a Dynaboars onslaught with a massive scrum effort, opening up the blindside for a break before a pair of penalties put them inside the 22.

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After eight long phases in the Kubota 22, Masataka Tsuruya finally found a route over the line for the Dynaboars but that was the only trouble that they would pose for the scorer keepers as they trailed 21-5 at half-time.

Five minutes into the second half and Kubota’s scrum sent the DynaBoars into reverse and while Makisi fumbled his pick-up, scrum-half Fujiwara was on hand for the simplest of run-ins.

The fans that weathered the conditions were starved of tries for most of the second half before another driving maul drew in the DynaBoars’ defence, giving replacement back Yuya Hirose the time and space to drop in a superbly placed cross kick in for Van den Heever to trot over the line.

The result keeps Kubota within touching distance of league leaders, the Wild Knights, while the DynaBoars could fall from their eighth-placed ranking depending on results elsewhere this weekend.

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