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I was told about Jonah by a gentleman by the name of Dez Smith who was manager for the New Zealand secondary school.
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Stear and I went off to sevens tournament that year he was playing and we looked at each other after we'd seen
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him in a couple of games and I said to what are you thinking? He said I reckon I'm thinking the same as you. I said
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wing he said yes not a number eight. And here was the reasoning. He had this incredible talent which we all know
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about but atund I think he was about 110 kgs at that stage. So was Tim Gavin and
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so was Willie Offen Gawway and so was Rodba from England. He's not going to be
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able to give us that magic as a loose forward. We've got two years to make a
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wing out of him and boy well the rest is history. Yeah.