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\nFehi Fineanganofo is the latest export from Aotearoa’s rugby factory, and will leave our shores at the end of the season.
\nPhoto: \u00a9 Photosport Ltd 2026 www.photosport.nz\n<\/p>\n
Fehi Fineanganofo is in rare form.<\/p>\n
Already with 14 tries to his name this season, the calls for an All Black callup have become deafening.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Fineanganofo is the latest export from Aotearoa’s rugby factory, and will leave our shores at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Clark Laidlaw asked if the journos in the room could pitch in to keep him in the country, with skipper Jordie Barrett adding that maybe they need to start a GoFundMe.<\/p>\n
“I’m not sure. Be nice to keep him here, wouldn’t it? For the competition, forget higher honours and stuff, for us and for the competition he’s a genuine X-factor. He’s a highlight reel most weeks,” Laidlaw said.<\/p>\n
However, he was hopeful he would return.<\/p>\n
“Who knows, he might be back. He’s only 23, his best rugby is ahead of him. Hopefully he continues to improve.”<\/p>\n
Fineanganofo will link up with English Premiership club Newcastle, leaving a huge hole at the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n
Jordie Barrett joked there was an internal campaign to get their star wing to reconsider his move.<\/p>\n
“He gets the odd jab in the ribs and an arm around him to stay. But that’s ultimately up to him. As a player in New Zealand, we’d love to have him. Pure and simple. But he’s made a decision for himself and his family, but between now and June, who knows. We’d love to have him.”<\/p>\n
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\nFineanganofo scoring one of a quartet at Te Kaha.
\nPhoto: Photosport\n<\/p>\n
Laidlaw said Fineanganofo provided them with serious firepower outwide.<\/p>\n
“He’s pretty devastating when he gets ball in hand and even a half opportunity. He’s a handful when he gets space and gets one-on-one.”<\/p>\n
Despite a first half hat-trick, Laidlaw said he still gave Fineanganofo a rev-up at the break.<\/p>\n
“He got a little bit of a hurry-up at half-time, if I’m being honest. I felt his off-the-ball stuff wasn’t where it needed to be, and he responded really well in the second half.”<\/p>\n
Barrett said it was a special feeling having a player on the park in such blistering form.<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty cool. The job is to get him the ball. You give players opportunities sometimes and in today’s game a one-on-one with a bit of space is as good as you get with organised defences.”<\/p>\n
With Josh Moorby bagging a brace and Jone Rova coming off the bench for a late try, the Hurricanes scored all seven tries through their wingers.<\/p>\n
“All our outside backs are going really well and it comes off the back of their hard work and getting into position to take opportunities,” said Laidlaw.<\/p>\n
Barrett, who began his professional career playing for Canterbury, said it was a special occasion to play at Te Kaha.<\/p>\n
“Unreal. So good. It’s amazing to have the stadium in New Zealand and for us to enjoy it after the time and money that’s gone into it. It’s got a different feel to Forsyth Barr, almost more like a European stadium, not as much airflow, quite humid, the ball gets a little more slippery. But the atmosphere is outstanding. Purpose-built rectangular stadium, crowd right on top of you. Tough to beat. More of that please.”<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes were again expansive with their attack, a tactic they don’t plan to reign in come play off time.<\/p>\n
“Competitions are won in June. But it’s not going to stop our ambition. A lot of it comes off working really hard to earn opportunities to play. The game’s at a stage where we want to ask what’s next and be brave and ambitious with the ball,” Barrett said.<\/p>\n
“But we’ve also got an eye on playing smart rugby when conditions limit opportunities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fehi Fineanganofo is the latest export from Aotearoa’s rugby factory, and will leave our shores at the end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-396947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}