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Reuters
25-02-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
New Zealand's Nonu makes comeback in Toulon at 42
Feb 25 (Reuters) - New Zealand great Ma'a Nonu has joined RC Toulon in a surprising comeback, the French club said on Tuesday, with the 42-year-old arriving as medical cover at the Top 14 side. "Welcome back! Ma'a Nonu is back as a medical joker until the end of the season," Toulon announced on X, using the league's regulation that a short-term replacement can be called in for a player who is not available for at least three months. Nonu, who earned 103 caps with the All Blacks and won the Rugby World Cup in 2011 and 2015, played in Toulon from 2015 to 2018 and during the 2020-21 season. The centre's previous club was San Diego Legion in Major League Rugby. Toulon are second in the Top 14 standings, three points behind reigning champions Toulouse with nine games remaining. They also play Saracens in the last 16 of the Champions Cup in April.
BBC News
29-01-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Second row Roux signs new one-year Bath deal
Bath second row Quinn Roux has signed a contract extension with the club to stay until 2026. The 34-year-old moved to Bath in 2022 from RC Toulon and has made 41 appearances since then. South African-born Roux has been capped 16 times by Ireland and was made an Irish citizen in 2018 after moving to the country to play for Leinster and then Connacht. Roux has played 14 games for Bath so far this season, starting 13 of them, and head of rugby Johann van Graan said he is one of Bath's most "consistent and important" players. "His actions speak louder than his words, specifically in the scrum, the maul and at the breakdown," he follows prop Beno Obano in agreeing new terms with the Premiership leaders this week.
