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Sevu Reece re-signs with the Crusaders and New Zealand Rugby

Sevu Reece in action against Ireland during the July series 2022. Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images

One of the Crusaders most prolific try scorers, Sevu Reece, has re-signed with the franchise and New Zealand Rugby through to 2024.

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Reece has 44 tries in 55 appearances along with four Super Rugby championship titles since his debut for the Canterbury side in March of 2019.

Reece’s hot form at the 2019 Rugby World Cup made him a regular starter for New Zealand’s top team for a number of years following the World Cup but has recently seen less international playing time with Crusaders teammate Will Jordan preferred in the All Blacks 14 jersey.

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Scott Robertson, Crusaders Head Coach, said Reece was “one of the world’s premier try scoring wings”.

“His impact on the field and ability to create something from nothing is a special gift,” Robertson said.

“The Crusaders are blessed to have Sevu.”

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Reece started his professional career in Waikato’s NPC side before being signed by the Crusaders in late 2018 and making the move to Tasman for the 2020 NPC season while Covid disrupted international tournaments.

While only seeing game time as injury cover in the current All Blacks setup, Reece has 14 tries to his name in 21 international caps.

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This new contract will take him beyond the 2023 Rugby World Cup which he will likely be a feature in, providing he stays healthy.

The Crusaders announced the signing Thursday afternoon with the message:

“We’d like to wish Sevu all the best with the upcoming Northern Tour and we can’t wait to see him back at Orangetheory stadium in red and black!”

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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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Nickers 1 hour ago
Scott Robertson responds to criticism over All Blacks' handling errors

Very poor understanding of what's going on and 0 ability to read. When I say playing behind the gain line you take this to mean all off-loads and site times we are playing in front of the gain line???


Every time we play a lot of rugby behind the gain line (for clarity, meaning trying to build an attack and use width without front foot ball 5m+ behind the most recent breakdown) we go backwards and turn the ball over in some way. Every time a player is tackled behind the most recent breakdown you need more and more people to clear out because your forwards have to go back around the corner, whereas opposition players can keep moving forward. Eventually you run out of either players to clear out or players to pass to and the result in a big net loss of territory and often a turnover. You may have witnessed that 20+ times in the game against England. This is a particularly dumb idea inside your own 40m which is where, for some reason, we are most likely to employ it.


The very best ABs teams never built an identity around attacking from poor positions. The DC era team was known for being the team that kicked the most. To engineer field position and apply pressure, and create broken play to counter attack. This current team is not differentiating between when a defence has lost it's structure and there are opportunities, and when they are completely set and there is nothing on. The reason they are going for 30 minute + periods in every game without scoring a single point, even against Japan and a poor Australian team, is because they are playing most of their rugby on the back foot in the wrong half.

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