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Leicester Tigers sign pair of international props

Leicester sign Campese Ma’afu and David Feao

Leicester Tigers have bolstered their front row options by signing two props – Fijian international Campese Ma’afu and Tongan international David Feao.

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The Tigers have been forced into the market after several departures including Logovi’i Mulipola to Newcaslte Falcons, while England international Ellis Genge is a long-term injury absentee with a knee problem.

Ma’afu, who has 52 caps, spent the last two seasons with the Tigers East Midlands rivals Northampton Saints and has also played for Cardiff Blues. He had been due to play for Ealing Trailfinders next season, but the 118kg prop is going to Welford Road instead and joins as an injury dispensation for Genge.

“We’re obviously disappointed to have Ellis sidelined for the start of the new season after suffering a knee injury on the England tour in the summer and we look forward to seeing him back to full fitness in due course, but Campese is a very experienced prop with good knowledge of Premiership and European rugby.” head coach Matt O’Connor said.

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128kg Tongan Feao, who played all three of the their summer Tests against Georgia, Fiji and Samoa, has European experience with spells at La Rochelle and most recently with Narbonne.

“David comes in with some good experience in Europe and we think he can continue to make good progress here. He is a big, powerful man and we look forward to getting him to work in the build-up to the new season.” O’Connor said.

The Brisbane-born prop also played for Souths, Brisbane City and NSW Country Eagles in Australia and picked up an Australian Schoolboys cap, but represented Tonga’s Under 20’s at the Junior World Championships in 2010.

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Along with Mulipola’s departure from Leicester in the summer, Michele Rizzo left for Petrarca, while Ben Betts signed for Ealing Trailfinders. Kyle Traynor and Chris Baumann also departed at the end of their contracts.

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JW 3 hours ago
Where is the new breed of All Black 10?

Players like Prendergast and Finn Smith already have a few seasons at top club level under their belt and are now test players, at an age when NZ players make their debuts in SR.

That’s just a difference in standards. You’re confusing SR for being their local domestic comps, where it’s more accurately comparable to Champions Cup, apart from that teams are happy to throw games as it’s in a bit of a limbo in terms of importance atm.


All these kids have been playing for a comparable NPC team for years now. Sam is no where near ready for tests but he has a great temperament, much like Sextons, that makes it a good choice to speed up his development. He wasn’t even a comparable Super Rugby starter before playing for Ireland, so not a great comparison.


Fin would be much better example, but then England don’t have 3 world class Test tens in front of him (not that I’d put Beauden their but obviously in terms of young NZ players chances, he is). Would he otherwise have debuted at the same age as Fergus Burke (injury and leaving withstanding), around 24, a couple of years later? England also aren’t as pedantic to who they give jerseys to, in NZ a test jersey is very hard earned for the most part.


In general I think the effects are as you say, but the only difference is the money involved, as you yourself said, their paths are just as all over the show being loaned out playing for clubs etc. My solution to that, and what you perceive as the problem, would be to introduce university football that utilitizes the large investment they have into high performance sport.

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