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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 31<br />
Sport<br />
Bodene Thompson’s Warriors future in doubt<br />
• By Michael Burgess<br />
BODENE Thompson’s days at<br />
the Warriors could be numbered.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Warriors second rower is<br />
off contract at the end of this season,<br />
and it appears unlikely that<br />
he will be at Mt Smart in 2018<br />
and beyond.<br />
Negotiations have been ongoing<br />
between the player’s representatives<br />
and the club for some<br />
time, but the NZ Herald understands<br />
that things are currently<br />
at a stalemate.<br />
It doesn’t help Thompson’s case<br />
that the club have signed Tohu<br />
Harris and Leivaha Pulu for next<br />
season, and the new duo are<br />
likely be the first choice second<br />
row combination, alongside<br />
Simon Mannering at lock.<br />
That would mean Thompson<br />
would slip down the pecking<br />
order at the club, while the<br />
continuing emergence of Bunty<br />
Afoa and Isaiah Papalii will<br />
further boost back row stocks at<br />
Mt Smart.<br />
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Thompson hasn’t helped his<br />
cause this season, with a series<br />
of unconvincing performances,<br />
including a sub-standard display<br />
in the Warriors 32-24 loss to the<br />
Eels in Sydney. Thompson was<br />
one of the best players at the club<br />
in the 2015 season – especially<br />
in the first half of the year – and<br />
seemed a great recruit. But the<br />
28-year-old has struggled to<br />
recapture his form since then.<br />
He’s been part of a vulnerable<br />
right edge defensively, with the<br />
Warriors being torn apart down<br />
that side in several games this<br />
season. Sure, Thompson wasn’t<br />
helped by playing out of position<br />
in the first three rounds (at<br />
hooker in round one against the<br />
Knights and in the centres in<br />
rounds two and three) but he has<br />
also struggled to match his output<br />
from the previous two years.<br />
He’s averaging only 50 running<br />
metres a game this season (down<br />
from 85m in the previous two<br />
years) and hasn’t had the same<br />
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impact with ball in hand.<br />
“I don’t know my plans for<br />
next season yet,” Thompson told<br />
NZ Herald last month. “I will<br />
handle it week by week and then<br />
whatever happens, happens. Obviously<br />
you always want to stay<br />
at the Warriors but you need to<br />
take care of business out on the<br />
field each week first.”<br />
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