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When Hurricanes recruit expects to return from 'frustrating' injury
When the Hurricanes run out to Queensland Country Bank Stadium for their Super Rugby Pacific season opener on Saturday evening, they’ll be without one of their key signings.
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New Zealand Rugby and the Hurricanes confirmed last July that flyhalf Brett Cameron had signed on to play Super Rugby out of the capital in 2023.
One-Test All Black Cameron, 25, joined young playmakers Ruben Love and Aidan Morgan as options at first-five for the Hurricanes.
The Whanganui-born first-five, who had previously played for the Crusaders, was expected to challenge for the starting spot this season – if not make that No. 10 jersey his own.
But Cameron is set to miss the Hurricanes’ first match of the new campaign after tearing his calf in a preseason clash against the Blues.
The Hurricanes recruit told RugbyPass on Tuesday that he hopes to be “playing some sort of minutes” towards the backend of next week.
“It’s pretty frustrating timing obviously but it could be worse,” Cameron told RugbyPass.
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“I’m in a pretty good spot at the moment where I’m hoping to get back and playing some sort of minutes at the end of next week, all going well.”
Cameron is back in New Zealand after a one season stint in Japan. But his decision to head overseas, as reported earlier this week, wasn’t one he necessarily wanted to make.
The flyhalf had joined a decorated list of legendary names to have donned the coveted black jersey in 2018, but didn’t have a Super Rugby deal a few years later.
After a few years of “frustration” playing behind star first-five Richie Mo’unga, Cameron failed to secure another deal with any of the other New Zealand sides.
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Disaster. For a career that promised so much, this was undoubtedly a tough hurdle to overcome at just 25 years of age.
Cameron went on to star for Manawatu at provincial level of New Zealand Rugby, and put pen to paper with a club overseas.
By the time New Zealand teams expressed interest, Cameron had already committed his short-term future to Kamaishi Seawaves in Japan.
“It was a little bit of a weird time for me, finishing up down south and didn’t have a lot come up that year,” he said.
“That opportunity to go overseas was something that wasn’t my first choice, but something I had to do at that time.
“My intention was always to come back and play NPC, and hopefully get back into Super Rugby from there.
“It was a tough time but I guess teams all have their players that are signed up for a couple of years.
“I had to take it as it comes and it gave me a bit of fuel for that season of NPC where I had a move to Manawatu.
“That was good in a way, it allowed me to express myself and then do the same thing overseas.”
The Hurricanes begin their Super Rugby Pacific campaign against the Queensland Reds in Townsville on Saturday evening.
With Ruben Love also injured, Aidan Morgan has been handed the playmaking reins for the Round One clash.
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1 Go to commentsThe Melbourne Rebels lineout is a complete disaster so not surprisingly a kiwi coach of the Wallabies hires the worst lineout coach in the country and a foreigner to boot. No surprises whatsoever here…….
3 Go to commentsThank your for wasting 2 minutes of my life Daniel. There is a useful message in there somewhere but your delivery sucks.
7 Go to commentsBen Smith, you are cry baby
214 Go to commentsSux that homophobia is still a thing though. I wonder how many players who could have become legends never kept playing rugby because they felt unwelcome.
7 Go to commentsCrazy he’s only 28, feel like he’s been around forever - don’t mind the move, safe pair of hands and creates depth in a thin position for ABs. Hopefully aides Kemara’s growth also without thrusting too much responsibility on him
1 Go to commentsMen should show strength and be mean, but they should be able to show emotion to those close yo them in certain times, birth of your child, death of family, proud moment. This article is stupid
7 Go to commentsWhat a weak article…absolute drivel and clickbait, well done. Will stick to rugby365 thanks
7 Go to commentsHonest, discipline, humility… Priceless.
2 Go to commentsSo many excuses. No mention of the SA number 2 being taken out illegally in the 2nd minute. That act of foul play had a massive impact on the SA game. Face it, NZ play pretty dirty very regularly, and it’s only since 2016 they’ve been held to higher officiating standards via stricter officiating and TMO reviews. They deserved to have a man down. Sorry. Fix the yellow and red cards and NZ will win more RWCs. Plus, there WAS a knock on invalidating the one try, so it was NOT a try. Period. Here’s a Kleenex…
214 Go to commentsOverheard conversation between NZ and SA rugby fans everywhere: We’re the greatest! No! we’re the greatest! We’re the greatest! No we’re the greatest! Ireland are arrogant! True but they beat you! We’re the greatest! No! we’re the greatest! Etc. etc, etc.
33 Go to commentsTypical crap Aussie weather
11 Go to comments“If they’d have beaten England, I still feel we would have been talking ‘is this the best team ever,’ ‘is this the best team that’s ever played in the Six Nations'” he said. “I still think they’re not quite that good. I actually don’t think they’re that good.” So Trimble is saying he doesn’t think this is the best 6N team of all time. He is silent on if it is the best Irish team of all time. Can’t disagree with him. Just another misrepresentative clickbait headline from the guys at RP.
33 Go to commentsWow, do we really still have to listen to all the excuses and “unfairness” of it all. Even blaming the bounce of an egg shaped ball for the loss. But the article is about context, so what about the Springboks having to play the other 5 teams in the top 6 and still beating a comparatively rested AB team on a very empty tank.
214 Go to comments“Teams would generally have three coaches below their head honcho; attack coach, defence coach, forwards coach” do they? I’m not sure what the NZ set up is tbh, but the other 4 sides top 5 sides all have very different structures to the one outlined in the article! As well as attack, defence, and forwards coaches, SA, Ireland, and France also have specialist scrum coaches. England have a specialist scrum coach too, but arguably don’t have a forwards coach, with that role taken on by Borthwick. SA also have a backs coach in addition to defence and attack, and Ireland and England have fitness coaches, with England also having two skills coaches.
3 Go to commentsWorst article I've read in a while. Trying to disguise a backhand slap as a compliment. The whole article is a bit weird and negative. I think South African men are emotional in general… think Clad le Clos’s father 2012 London Olympics.
7 Go to commentsIreland are going to win the world cup.
33 Go to commentsIt was the strangest result ever. Etzebeth should've been yellow card for his cynical retiring move and a penalty try. Birth second half tries by the Allblacks were fantastic and the TMO operating outside the law to rule out the first try was egregious. Yes, the boks got the win but it was through some bizarre officiating that allowed them to sneak home against 14 men that dominated them. The quieter Bok supporters know and acknowledge the Allblacks were the better and dominant side. Justifying the win because they beat a pre world cup Allblacks selection is silly.
214 Go to commentsA very English thing to do hey Courtney, blerrie kant
4 Go to commentsIt sounds like Andrew is trying to convince himself or has just lost all perspective. The team did look jaded for the last couple of games of the six nations but a few things were wrong there. Italy tackled their hearts out and made Ireland work hard for every try. Outsmarted by Scotland? Huh? Ireland got held up over the line about 4 times. Scotland did nothing on attack the whole game other than one breakaway near the end. A recharge and reset is needed which they hopefully will have had before the SA your.
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