Former Wallabies coach Dave Rennie will return to New Zealand a winner, having broken a long drought when his Kobe Steelers beat Spears Funabashi Bay in the Japan Rugby League One final.
The Steelers scored a comfortable 22-13 win in front of 50,451 people at the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday.
Rennie, who won back-to-back Super Rugby titles with the Waikato Chiefs in 2012 and 2013, had not been successful at club level since, despite a further four seasons in Hamilton, three at the Glasgow Warriors and two at Kobe before to this campaign.
