Watch every second of Super Rugby Pacific live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe 24-year-old, who still has family in Perth via his mother, may have pulled on the black jersey in the past; however, his future ambitions are clear.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would be lying if I said I haven’t thought about it. I’d love to put on a gold jersey. I think that would be a really special one,” he told Rugby.com.au.<\/p>\n
\u201c…When I was growing up, my old man got me into rugby, so I was a bit torn, but I was definitely a bit of an All Blacks supporter there for a bit and playing over there for high school, I played NZ under-20s as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut coming back over here, I’d love to play for the Wallabies and give it a good crack anyway.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the moment, just trying to string a few good games together and then see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hastie came through the Highlanders system and was handed a special Super Rugby debut in 2023 after coming off the bench against the Force at HBF Park.<\/p>\n
He reflected on what it would potentially mean to trade places and play in front of the Sea of Blue as a local.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember going to HBF Park when I was younger and my old man taking me down there to watch Force games, so I think it’ll be special to play for the Force for sure,” Hastie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI debuted for the Highlanders in 2023 in Perth, so that was a full circle moment within itself, and now, a couple of years later, I managed to come here and play here hopefully. <\/p>\n
“If you asked me back when I first started if I thought this would happen, I’d probably say no, but it’s been a pretty wild ride.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Otago scrumhalf was relishing the chance to learn from new coach Nic White, who was added to the staff last week.<\/p>\n
It’s allowed Hastie to sharpen his skills ahead of Friday’s pre-season trial against the Queensland Reds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve got a great group of nines here so it’s been really good working with them,” he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone here is really keen to just work together and get better as a group, so I think that’s awesome and then have \u2018Whitey\u2019 in here as well, giving you tips and giving you a little bit of advice that you wouldn’t think about on your own. It’s great to have that experience to draw from.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we’ve got a really good competitive group of nines here and it should be all the better for the team for the season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Western Force scrumhalf Nathan Hastie has confirmed his desire to pull on the gold jersey as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,48013,11229],"class_list":{"0":"post-424874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-super-rugby-pacific","13":"tag-western-force"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424874","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=424874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}