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Reuters
08-07-2025
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- Reuters
Evergreen Nonu re-signs with Toulon, aged 43
July 8 (Reuters) - New Zealand great Ma'a Nonu has extended his stay with Toulon after signing a one-year deal with the Top 14 club at the age of 43. The evergreen centre made a surprise comeback to Toulon in February, arriving as medical cover for the last months of the 2024-25 season and becoming the oldest Top 14 player when he took the field against Castres in March. A twice-World Cup winner capped 103 times for the All Blacks, Nonu is in his third stint at Toulon after spells from 2015-18 and 2020-21. Toulon also confirmed the arrival of seven new players including former England number eight Zach Mercer, Italy centre Ignacio Brex and New Caledonia-born talent Patrick Tuifua, a hulking 20-year-old flanker who turned down a Super Rugby contract with New Zealand side Wellington Hurricanes. Toulon were knocked out of the 2025 semi-finals by runners-up Bordeaux-Begles. The new Top 14 season starts on September 6.
CNA
08-07-2025
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- CNA
Evergreen Nonu re-signs with Toulon, aged 43
New Zealand great Ma'a Nonu has extended his stay with Toulon after signing a one-year deal with the Top 14 club at the age of 43. The evergreen centre made a surprise comeback to Toulon in February, arriving as medical cover for the last months of the 2024-25 season and becoming the oldest Top 14 player when he took the field against Castres in March. A twice-World Cup winner capped 103 times for the All Blacks, Nonu is in his third stint at Toulon after spells from 2015-18 and 2020-21. Toulon also confirmed the arrival of seven new players including former England number eight Zach Mercer, Italy centre Ignacio Brex and New Caledonia-born talent Patrick Tuifua, a hulking 20-year-old flanker who turned down a Super Rugby contract with New Zealand side Wellington Hurricanes.
France 24
07-07-2025
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- France 24
Ex-All Black Nonu extends Toulon deal, aged 43
Nonu signed a short-term deal with the four-time French champions last season and became the oldest player to feature in the Top 14 in March. The two-time World Cup winner returned to Toulon earlier this year after his first spell on the French Riviera between 2015-2018 and a shorter stint in 2020-2021. He made 103 Test appearances for the All Blacks, the last of which came in 2015. Toulon also confirmed the arrival of seven new players next season including England No 8 Zach Mercer, Italy centre Juan Ignacio Brex and highly-rated young French back-rower Patrick Tuifua. Toulon lost to eventual runners-up Bordeaux-Begles in the Top 14 semi-finals last season. The new campaign starts on September 6.
BBC News
13-05-2025
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- BBC News
Ackermann, Harris & Clarke among Gloucester leavers
Ruan Ackermann, Freddie Clarke, Chris Harris, Zach Mercer, Albert Tuisue and Mayco Vivas are among 19 players who will be leaving Gloucester at the end of this Ackermann and lock Clarke have both surpassed 150 appearances for the Cherry and Whites, with Scotland and British and Irish Lions centre Harris scoring 26 tries in 106 matches so back-row Tuisue has started six out of 17 matches this season and has been at Gloucester since 2022, along with Argentina loose-head prop eight Mercer, who signed in 2023 with the hope of returning to the England set-up, saw his season ended by a knee injury in November and has been linked with a return to a French Louis Hillman-Cooper, prop Alfie Petch and hooker Morgan Nelson will also be leaving. Versatile Argentina back Santiago Carreras had already confirmed his move to Bath for 2025-26, fly-half Gareth Anscombe has signed for French Top 14 side Bayonne, scrum-half Charlie Chapman will move to Premiership rivals Exeter and winger Christian Wade is switching codes to rugby league to join Wigan players, Morgan Adderly-Jones, Ioan Jones, Gareth Blackmore, Rory Taylor, Matty Ward and Aristot Benz Salomon will also depart the club this summer.
