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VIDEO: 6'5, 111kg Vaea Fifita turns on the afterburners for freakish try
By Ian Cameron
Early in Vaea Fifita's career there was a question mark over whether he should be a backrower or a winger, and you can see why based on the try he scores against the Pumas tonight.
In the moments after the Pumas - who were leading the game 22 - 15 - botched a restart, the Hurricanes backrow gets hold of the ball. Instead of crashing it up into contact, Fifita looks for the outside and backs his pace.
Argentina's covering defence did not stand a chance.
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Nice! Should be an even more exciting season that last year. Who have Verblitz got to replace Beauden Barrett? They should be a lot better this year. Tiaan Falcon might be able to run the ship.
Is Ben Herring still their coach? I was hoping he would return to NZ with Fosters addition to the team but a recent article seemed to suggest he was still just an assistant.
Appreciate the player insights for the up and commers. Been a bit dreary watching Champions Cup rugby so can't wait for it to start.
Go to commentsThru 2021 I naively became optimistic, not before that.
The biggest issue is the fact he was that being the skipper shouldn't have had anything to do with it. Big deal if your chosen skipper is injury for large majorities and you have to use pro's like Whitelock (who would otherwise have been skipper anyway if Razor got the job), and up and comers like Barret and Ardie, is no reason to jettison Cane.
The problem was that the All Black coach didn't even realise this fact, and continually included Cane, because he was skipper, as soon as he was back from injruy. When he should have helped develop some more 7s and only playing Cane with some came time under his belt. He wasn't Riche McCaw after all, though he did play pretty well in that Irish series after coming straight back in. Hell everyone was getting critized by everyone for the fact Foster SUBBED him after 60. It was a ridiculous period as Yeow mentioned.
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