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Hurricanes lock in trio of players for 2020 - including rapid wing, Wes Goosen

Hurricanes flyer Wes Goosen scores a try against the Rebels. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Three more established Hurricanes players have extended their contracts at the club.

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Proven try-scorer Wes Goosen and exciting young midfielder Peter Umaga-Jensen have signed on until at least the end of the 2021 Super Rugby season.

They will be joined in next year’s squad by vastly experienced prop Ben May who returns for his ninth season with the Hurricanes.

Goosen, 23, has scored 19 tries in his 37 appearances since he made his debut in 2016 against the Reds when he crossed with his first touch in Super Rugby.

While he has played the majority of his rugby at the Hurricanes on the wing, Goosen also has the ability to play in the midfield and at fullback.

Umaga-Jensen, 21, made his debut against the Reds in 2018 but suffered a shoulder injury playing for the Wellington Lions in the Mitre 10 Cup. After a lengthy period of rehabilitation, he was selected several times for the back end of the 2019 season and impressed with his all-round play.

The evergreen May, 36, has agreed to return for another year after demonstrating his value on and off the field in 2019.

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Although he had previously played for the Crusaders and Chiefs, it is at the Hurricanes where he has firmly established himself having played 89 matches in his 124-game Super Rugby career.

Hurricanes head coach John Plumtree believed May’s leadership skills continue to be a great asset while his ability to maintain the highest standards of professionalism was a great example to team-mates.

“Wes and Peter are two young guys who we see as having big futures at the Hurricanes,” he said. “We have seen what Wes is capable of over the last three seasons while Peter just gets better with every challenge thrown at him.”

– Hurricanes Rugby

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Flankly 1 hour ago
'Absolute madness': Clive Woodward rips into Borthwick in wake of NZ loss

Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".


But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.


The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.


Borthwick has been in the job for nearly two years, a period that includes two 6N programs and an RWC campaign. So where are the solid foundations that he has been building?

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