Aumua has long been on the All Blacks' radar, having played non-Test match tour games for New Zealand in 2017.<\/p>\n
SIGN UP<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/em> The only place rugby fans can watch every match is Stan Sport. Start a 30 day free trial now, for a limited time only<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n He was named in All Blacks squads last year and didn't play but on current form looks odds-on to be unleashed against Australia in 2021.<\/p>\n "He's a wrecking ball isn't he? He is absolutely rock hard," Robertson told Stan Sport's Rugby Heaven<\/em> this week.<\/a><\/p>\n "To hit him is pretty immense and he runs between shoulders so a lot of people bounce off him and he's just got great leg drive.<\/p>\n "I had him in the 20s (Junior All Blacks) a few years ago and he loves a try-scoring celebration."<\/p>\n The Hurricanes and Crusaders will clash in round two in Christchurch on Sunday.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> All Blacks legend slips boot into referees<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Tahs captain's staunch support of hurting coach<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> What we learned from wild Super Rugby round<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Aumua is listed at 108kg and 1.77m and boasts exceptional acceleration for a man of his size.<\/p>\n He credits an improved diet for his form surge and retold a remarkable folklore story in an interview with Stuff last season.<\/a><\/p>\n "When I was at school I was doing the video analysis, videoing the game because I had a concussion, and I was talking in the background to someone about this one time I ate 16 pies for breakfast," Aumua said.<\/p>\n "I was 15 or 16, and I was way skinnier. I don't know how I ate them, but I did. <\/p>\n "One day I'll do it again, not while I'm playing rugby though."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Champion Crusaders coach Scott Robertson has lavished praise on Hurricanes sensation Asafo Aumua, who looks set to terrorise the Wallabies in the Bledisloe Cup this […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40907,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40905\/revisions\/40907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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