Nigel Yalden

They've actually had quite a good record with bringing people up from Canterbury.

Anton Leonard-Brown was pretty decent.

Brady Retallick came from down those there parts as well.

So that was back in the Wayne Smith days where Wayne was able to go in and very politely and genially convince people to come up to the Chiefs.

There wasn't a bucket load known about him.

We'd seen him obviously at MPC level.

We understood that he had had

quite horrific knee injury and I had the chance to speak with Isaac on Monday and he was explaining exactly you know what happened how he was talking about the the scans that they showed him and he's like see there's this gap and

in between this and this.

Well, there's not meant to be a gap there.

So I was like, so it had fully separated.

He said on one side it had.

Basically the upper part of his knee and the lower part of his knee had fully separated.

He'd had ACL, MCL, PCL was the only thing that was in there.

Meniscus had parted company.

Basically all the key components of this dude's knee

went in separate directions of the compass at an absolute rate of knots.

Incredibly diligent, and he's come back.

You wouldn't know that he's had that level of knee surgery, Jamie, because the quickness is there, the sharpness of the step is there, but Watt just stands out.

He's got great instincts, as we saw with that try on Friday night to really put the exclamation point on the victory with the Reds.