Get your tickets to see the Wallabies tackle the British & Irish Lions in Sydney on Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\nThe 24-year-old scrumhalf played for the Junior All Blacks and was born in Perth, playing club rugby for Wanneroo.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels like a full circle moment to be coming back and playing for the team I grew up watching,” Hastie admits.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still remember my dad taking me to HBF Park to watch the Force – I always loved those rugby days. Now, having the chance to play for them myself is something I\u2019m truly excited and grateful for.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me, this is a great chance to grow my game, learn off experienced campaigners, work towards higher honours, and represent the city that\u2019s always been home – all while playing in front of the people who\u2019ve supported me from the start.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Force are a dangerous team. I\u2019m really looking forward to bringing my own skills and energy\u00a0to\u00a0this\u00a0team.\u201d<\/p>\n
It comes after the Force picked up flyhalf Alex Harford from New Zealand, with coach Simon Cron’s strategy in bringing back Australian-eligible players from overseas producing Wallabies in Harry Potter and Nick Champion de Crespigny.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re always looking at Australian players, where they are and what they\u2019re doing,” Cron said.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re trying to attract some of those players back into Australia like Harry Potter and Nick Champion de Crespigny who\u2019ve both gone on to debut for the Wallabies.<\/p>\n
\u201cHastie has an amazing skillset, with a great pass and he can kick both feet.\u00a0He\u2019s very driven and at 24 years of age, he has plenty to give to the west for years to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe see Nathan as a guy who\u2019ll push everybody for that starting spot. He has the skillset to be genuinely great as a nine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hastie fills the void left by Issak Fines-Leleiwasa, who joined the Fijian Drua, set to link up with the club after the NPC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force have continued their push to sign Australian-eligible talent after recruiting Perth-born and raised scrum-half Nathan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,11229],"class_list":["post-26137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}