Coach insists team are focused on
South Africa quarter-final‘We’re going into Tests thinking and believing we can win’Japan’s players are largely oblivious to the frenzy their heroics at the
World Cup are generating in the wider rugby world, according to their coach, Jamie Joseph, as they prepare for their historic showdown with South Africa.
The New Zealander said he was “not too sure” how his team felt about the praise being heaped on them outside
Japan, but suggested that overexposure to the tributes coming thick and fast in the international media could affect their concentration.