Hunt takes long road to Waratahs extension
Karmichael Hunt’s Waratahs career seemed finished last year when they signed an NRL star, but the 33-year-old triple-code gun is ready to fight for a contract extension.
Karmichael Hunt’s Waratahs career seemed finished last year when they signed an NRL star, but the 33-year-old triple-code gun is ready to fight for a contract extension.
Three games, three defeats! The Super Rugby season couldn’t have got off to a worst start for the Waratahs. So, they changed decided to change things up at training – and it paid immediate dividends.
NSW had lost their previous five games against the Lions, and had never won at Bankwest Stadium, but that changed with a marked difference in style to kick-start their season.
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Not satisfied with winning last year’s inaugural Super W title without losing a game, NSW have built an even more formidable squad this year in anticiptation the rest of the competition will up its game.
Waratahs coach Daryl Gibson has warned his players they need to cut out the “stupid” mistakes that cost them a first-round win against the Hurricanes if they want to avoid another loss against the Sunwolves this weekend
Kurtley Beale has acknowledged the leaked video of him with someone who was snorting a line of cocaine and another clip of him with a man holding a plate of white powder were “a bad image” for the game.
Despite playing a blinder at No.12 in his first game for the Waratahs, Karmichael Hunt shift to outside centre to allow Kurtley Beale to slot back in to face the Sunwolves.
The Waratahs’ preparations for next weekend’s Sunwolves clash hang on a concussion test for Adam Ashley-Cooper and the fitness of Kurtley Beale.
After beating themselves up for the last two days about the crushing loss to the Hurricanes, the Waratahs have identified what went right.
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