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Greg Pleasants-Tate
Full nameGregory Pleasants-Tate
Date of birth (1991-05-12) 12 May 1991 (age 33)
Place of birthWhanganui, New Zealand
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight112 kg (17 st 9 lb; 247 lb)
SchoolTakapuna Grammar School
Rugby union career
Position(s) Loosehead Prop / Hooker
Current team Template:Rut Auckland / Template:Rut Highlanders
Youth career
2008-2010 Template:Rut North Harbour
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2011–2012 Template:Rut Bay of Plenty 11 (5)
2013−2014 Template:Rut North Harbour 20 (15)
2015 Template:Rut Blues 1 (0)
2015−2017 Template:Rut Auckland 25 (30)
2016–2018 Template:Rut Highlanders 29 (15)
2018 Canterbury 5 (20)
2019− Southland 9 (15)
2020 China Lions ()
Correct as of 10 January 2017
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2011 New Zealand Under-20 2 (5)
Correct as of 10 January 2017

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Southland rugby games 8 Greg Pleasants-Tate (born 12 May 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union player who currently plays as a hooker for Template:Rut Auckland in New Zealand's domestic Mitre 10 Cup and the Template:Rut Highlanders in the international Super Rugby competition.[1][2][3][4][5]

Early career

Born in Whanganui, a city on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island, Pleasants-Tate moved north during his schooling and was educated at Takapuna Grammar School on the North Shore of Auckland where played first XV rugby while also turning out for Template:Rut North Harbour at age-group level.[3]

Senior career

Despite coming through the youth ranks at North Harbour, Pleasants-Tate made his senior ITM Cup debut with the Template:Rut Bay of Plenty Steamers during the 2011 season. He played 2 seasons of rugby in Rotorua and notched up 11 appearances before switching back to Harbour in 2013 where he played all 10 games in a dismal campaign for the men from Auckland's North Shore in which they would finish bottom of the Championship table.

2014 was not a great season for North Harbour, finishing 5th on the Championship log, however Pleasants-Tate put in some strong performances in the number 1 jersey, starting all 10 games during the regular season and scoring 2 tries. That would prove to be his final season in North Shore City and he made the short move to join ITM Cup Premiership side Template:Rut Auckland for the 2015 ITM Cup. He played 10 times as a hooker for Auckland in his first year with them as they reached the Premiership final before losing out 25-23 to Template:Rut Canterbury. 2016 did not prove to be as strong a year for either party, with Template:Rut Auckland ending up 5th in the Premiership table, outside of the playoff places and injury holding Pleasants-Tate back in the latter part of the season and restricting him to just 6 appearances during which time he managed to score 3 tries.[5][6]

Super Rugby

Four seasons of solid performances at domestic level saw him finally earn a crack at Super Rugby when the Auckland-based Template:Rut Blues named him in their wider training group for the 2015 Super Rugby season.[7] Able to cover both number 1 and 2 jerseys, but having played the previous domestic season as a hooker for Auckland, Pleasants-Tate had to vie with Matt Moulds to provide back up to All Blacks; Keven Mealamu and James Parsons and subsequently only made 1 substitute appearance against the Template:Rut Rebels during what would be his only season with the Blues.

Now focusing almost exclusively on playing hooker, Pleasants-Tate found himself surplus to requirements with the Blues and moved south to Dunedin ahead of the 2016 Super Rugby season to take a place as a member of the Template:Rut Highlanders wider training group, providing cover for Liam Coltman and Ash Dixon, the franchise's 2 established hookers. The Highlanders were defending Super Rugby champions in 2016, but were unable to hold on to their crown, losing out to the Template:Rut Lions in Johannesburg in the competition's semi-finals, however, Pleasants-Tate, had a productive year and made 7 substitute appearances.[5]

Tony Brown replaced the Japan-bound Jamie Joseph as Highlanders head-coach ahead of the 2017 season and he retained Pleasants-Tate in the squad for the year.[4]

International career

Pleasants-Tate was a member of the New Zealand Under-20 side which won the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship in Italy, playing 2 times and scoring 1 try.[8][9]

Career Honours

New Zealand Under-20

Super Rugby Statistics

As of 31 March 2017[5]
Season Team Games Starts Sub Mins Tries Cons Pens Drops Points Yel Red
2015 Template:Rut Blues 1 0 1 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2016 Template:Rut Highlanders 9 0 9 100 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 10 0 10 110 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

References

  1. ^ "Greg Pleasants-Tate Auckland Player Profile". Auckland Rugby. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Greg Pleasants-Tate ESPN Scrum Player Profile". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Greg Pleasants-Tate Highlanders Player Profile". Highlanders Rugby. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Highlanders 2017 Squad Guide" (PDF). All Blacks.com. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d "Greg Pleasants-Tate itsrugby.co.uk Player Statistics". itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  6. ^ "ITM Cup: Auckland hooker happy to fly under the radar". New Zealand Herald. 23 October 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Blues 2015 Squad Naming" (PDF). All Blacks.com. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  8. ^ "Greg Pleasants-Tate New Zealand Under-20 Player Profile". All Blacks. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  9. ^ "New Zealand Under 20 squad named". All Blacks. 28 April 2011. Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
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