Watch: Caleb Clarke shows his prowess as New Zealand's form wing as Blues slice Highlanders defence to score
There's a growing chorus of support for Blues sensation Caleb Clarke to earn a maiden call-up to the All Blacks after finding himself in a rich vein of form throughout Super Rugby Aotearoa.
Standing at a whopping 107kg, the 21-year-old speedster's big frame has proven to be difficult to bring to a halt for defences across New Zealand, and that was no different on Sunday when his side faced off against the Highlanders in Dunedin.
Clarke played a key role in two of the Blues' first half tries, breaching the home side's defensive line twice to help put halfback Finlay Christie and second-five TJ Faiane away for a try apiece.
On both occasions, the youngster showed off the immense physical attributes that make him one of the most promising outside backs in the country.
That much can be seen in a clip posted to the Super Rugby NZ Twitter account, where Clarke sucked in Mitch Hunt and Sio Tomkinson on a charging run before firing an offloas away to the unmarked Christie, who cantered in for a try.
With a logjam of talent in the back three department nationwide, Clarke's place in the All Blacks set-up won't be handed to him without a fight, but it would be hard to justify excluded the exciting prodigy when he's in the kind of form.
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Thats exactly the criticism Ed, that it has already been done for generations. A strong SA, in many respects, should certainly help African rugby develop. You'd have to think they'd acclimatize much better being drawn to a pro SA club than say a European. Hopefully the fact theyve gone private (is that right Graham?) should enable this sort of change.
Go to commentsPerofeta came back and was available for the eoyt right? Or was that why Love was in the squad (but got injured in the last week)?
It was such a frustrating year. Perofeta looked a service stop gap until Jordan was fit, but then got injured. Plummer was selected because of Pero's injury and dmac shat the bed in the second half in Australia but Clarke (?) got himself binned at the 65 min mark so Plummer couldn't come on (at least with the risk adverse Razors thinking) when he was planned to.
So many other exciting opportunities that could have happened without injuries, but then theyre probably balanced by knowing Sititi probably wouldn't have been given a chance without multiple injuries happened.
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