Codie Taylor

Codie Taylor

Codie Taylor playing for the All Blacks
Birth name	Codie Joshua Dane Taylor
Date of birth	(1991-03-31) 31 March 1991
Place of birth	Levin, New Zealand
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	111 kg (245 lb; 17 st 7 lb)
School	Feilding High School Horowhenua College
Notable relative(s)	Walter Pringle (2nd-great-grandfather)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 2012– Canterbury 19 (25) Correct as of 29 October 2016 Super Rugby Years Team Apps (Points) 2013– Template:Rut Crusaders 34 (30) Correct as of 23 July 2016 International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2011 2014 2015– New Zealand under-20 Māori All Blacks New Zealand 5 2 28 (0) (5) (35) Correct as of 22 November 2017

Codie Joshua Dane Taylor (born 31 March 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer who plays as a hooker for Crusaders in Super Rugby, Canterbury in the ITM Cup, and New Zealand internationally. Having grown up in Feilding and Levin before moving to Christchurch he was a member of the Template:Rut Crusaders Wider Training Squad for the 2012 Super Rugby season and he has subsequently been promoted to the senior squad for the 2013 season, before making his international debut in 2015.

Career

Taylor was part of the Junior All Blacks team which won the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship.

Of Ngāti Raukawa and Muaūpoko descent, Taylor played for the Māori All Blacks in 2014.

Taylor was selected for the All Blacks 2015 Squad against Samoa. His first game for the All Blacks was the opening match of the 2015 Rugby Championship against Argentina, when he came on in the 59th minute to replace Kevin Mealamu as Hooker. He scored a try on debut, in the 71st minute, after the All Blacks won a scrum close to the Argentine line.

Taylor was named in the All Blacks 31-man squad to go to the Rugby World Cup 2015 in England.

Taylor surpassed the injury-plagued Nathan Harris as regular back-up to starting hooker Dane Coles off the bench in 2016 following Mealamu's retirement the previous year. Taylor also notably earned a start against Australia in the first match of the 2016 Rugby Championship, but was subbed off after three minutes of play for a head injury assessment and was replaced by Coles. Taylor did not return to the field that match. Taylor had notable involvement in the 57-15 win against South Africa in Durban on 6th October 2016, scoring a try off a driving maul and also receiving a yellow card long after the full time had passed, following a head-high tackle on a Springboks player. Taylor also earned another start for the All Blacks later that year in the 68-10 victory over Italy.

In 2017 Taylor stepped up to the role of starting hooker for the All Blacks following Dane Coles' 5 months out with concussion. This included starting in all three tests against the British and Irish Lions, where Taylor scored the first try of the series after being set up to score by winger Israel Dagg. Taylor kept the starting role until Coles returned to international rugby on 26th August 2017, which was a 35-29 win against Australia Taylor took part in off the bench.

Personal Life

Taylor is the great-great-grandson of All Blacks player Walter Pringle.

External links

• Codie Taylor itsrugby.co.uk Player Statistics