Rugby Pass the Crusaders were keen on him, and he was waiting on a phone call from coach Scott Robertson. “I haven’t heard from him yet, but I’m assuming he’s a busy guy. I haven’t heard anything, yet, from anyone else,” Osei-Nketia said.
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Crusaders chief executive Colin Mansbridge. However, the reality is the Crusaders did not go waving a contract in his face when he failed to make New Zealand’s team for the Tokyo Olympics, Mansbridge said, making it clear the situation had been blown out of proportion. “His manager has reached out to the Crusaders, we wish him all the best in a transition to rugby if that’s the choice he wants to make, and if there’s some way we can support that, we’d absolutely do that,” Mansbridge said.
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