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Wellington teenager Billy Proctor has signed the longest deal in Hurricanes history.
The 19-year-old utility back will link up with his older brother, Matt Proctor, after committing to the Super Rugby franchise until the end of 2023.
Never before have the Hurricanes offered a player a five-year contract, which shows just how highly they rate the former New Zealand under-20 representative.
"I'm obviously really excited about the opportunity. The length of my contract gives me some real security and the ability to just concentrate on developing my game," Proctor said.
"I've always supported the Hurricanes and to get the opportunity to play Super Rugby in my home town is obviously really special."
Hurricanes coach John Plumtree said Proctor caught the eye while playing for their development team.
"We believe Billy has a big future in the game if he continues to make the sort of progress he is making at the moment and he's made it clear that future involves the Hurricanes," he said.
"It also shows there is a great pathway for young local players who put the effort in to be rewarded."
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@daffy-jaffy Wow, five years. That's a long contract for such a young player!
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@daffy-jaffy Super news. Billy is going to be the bigger and better version of Matt.
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@canes4life promise!!?? if he does that deal will look like a genius move. Really sucks that injuries put paid to Matt's chance of a crack at the AB midfield.
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As expected, the Sunwolves have appointed Tony Brown as Head Coach for the 2019 Super Rugby season.
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Phil Burleigh has signed with them too.
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@taniwharugby If the Sunwolves keep signing more NZ rugby players, we may as well count them as the 6th NZ team with a few foreigners.
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@stargazer Quite rapt purely from a Northland piece we get Ranger back for Mitre 10 Cup next year..I suspect moving forward there will be many more..
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You say that like it’s a bad thing. I’d be pleased if they were in our conference - or at least would go to more games
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@gt12 The bad thing is that in reality it's supposed to be a Japanese team but hasn't that many Japanese players in it. Reality is also that if it had more Japanese players in it, it would be even more sh*t than it is now. In more than one way, that team is a joke.
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Always so serious
All good points, except fuck them being a Japanese team, except for Tanaka.
I want them to be fucking choker bloc of favorite sons no longer quite good enough elsewhere - Messam and Lats would be my first additions.
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@stargazer said in Super Rugby News:
@gt12 The bad thing is that in reality it's supposed to be a Japanese team but hasn't that many Japanese players in it. Reality is also that if it had more Japanese players in it, it would be even more sh*t than it is now. In more than one way, that team is a joke.
It wasn't really thought through was it? The team doesn't fit into the Japan rugby set up so can't be either a next level between their club game and internationals or a de-facto Brave Blossoms.
Instead they get overseas players alongside dregs or development players from clubs.Japan Rugby needs to decide how they want this team to fit in. What would be best for them is probably to use it as a step between club and country using national players that don't play overseas.
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