Saw CHT today and he isnt looking huge. Great build for a half to take the line on a bit more effectively...
Player Chanel Harris-Tavita
- Thread starter tajhay
- Start date
- Date of Birth
- Apr 3, 1999
- Birth Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Nationality
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 🇼🇸 Samoa
- Height (cm)
- 183 cm
- Weight (kg)
- 89 kg
- Position/s
- Utility
- Warrior #
- 233
- Warriors Debut Date
- Apr 5, 2019
- Warriors Debut Details
- NRL 2019, Round 4, Titans
- Warriors Years Active
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2024
- Current Club
- New Zealand Warriors
- Rep Honours
- Samoa
You mean he IS looking huge?
this guy is going to be the surprise great recruitment eh? I love the way he plays the game, he's team first and clearly now committed - big fan already, will be bigger when he's flicking an offload to a rampaging second rower up the middle
Can see where he is coming from in terms of having pre seasons since he was 17 and feeling refreshed after some time off.
The covid years would have been worn on a lot of guys. Along with the changing coaches.
He's walking into a new club now under different management, different coach and more importantly a pretty successful year.
He has things he needs to work on if he plays in the halves. But I can see Webster being keen to get on the field with him. More importantly CHT seems like the type to put the work in.
The covid years would have been worn on a lot of guys. Along with the changing coaches.
He's walking into a new club now under different management, different coach and more importantly a pretty successful year.
He has things he needs to work on if he plays in the halves. But I can see Webster being keen to get on the field with him. More importantly CHT seems like the type to put the work in.
Its hard to know.
Sironen played more 9 than walker or jazz and Lussick only started a few matches.
Would you carry CHT at 14? He can't really come on in the forwards like Sironen...
He could be a reserve back , but it's a bit of a wasted bench spot.
Do you carry lussick and cht? Probably not.
Glad that's not our problem best man for the jobs I say. Will have to wait and see the trials.
I think he will end up the long term replacement for SJ at 7.
He has been groomed for it in the past. His signing was when the club appeared to go cold on Volkman. Kiwi, clubman, experienced, tough and just needing decent coaching.
A year under Webster learning his systems while playing 14 and I see him taking over in 2025.
I feel that I was one of Chanel's harshest critics last time he was here.
I can't help but feel this time around he's going to be really really vital to the team. He'd n a better head space, with a team performing better, with a coach who knows how to get the best out of him.
I'm thinking we'll employ a double 14 role off the bench, where both he and Walker offer an uptempo change of pace around the 25 minutes mark, but both offer different skill sets
I can't help but feel this time around he's going to be really really vital to the team. He'd n a better head space, with a team performing better, with a coach who knows how to get the best out of him.
I'm thinking we'll employ a double 14 role off the bench, where both he and Walker offer an uptempo change of pace around the 25 minutes mark, but both offer different skill sets
He will take the hooker minutes that Sironen had and cover the halves and backline.
I think he can easily cover the middle too.
He is/was the same size as Cam Murray and Cameron McInnes and is bigger than Connor Watson
I think he can easily cover the middle too.
He is/was the same size as Cam Murray and Cameron McInnes and is bigger than Connor Watson
I feel ratshit for saying this but I think it’s time for Jazz to go to SL, with CHT onboard the bench is in dire need of some beef.
Sport is a business and no man is bigger than the club
Sport is a business and no man is bigger than the club
Yeah I think eye's are going to be on Jazz this coming season he's a true warrior at heart though,
It's just that injury he suffered he's never looked the same since.
He could be potentially blocking youngsters from climbing up keeping Jazz.
Even if this offends the Jazz people's, I'm happy to ship him out. His mistakes rate (of which I have no statistical analysis) are my only reasoning.
CHT: I'm here, ready to enjoy it
Chanel Harris-Tavita fizzed to start his second stint with the One New Zealand Warriors.
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One person, more than any other, stood smiling and shaking his head in wonderment, agog at what he was seeing. Just trying to take it all in.
In that moment he couldn’t help but have a then and now experience.
That person was Chanel Harris-Tavita.
Then was going back a little more than 12 months to the night of September 3, 2022.
A gruelling season had ended for the One New Zealand Warriors with a shattering 26-27 golden point loss to the Gold Coast Titans at a damp Mount Smart Stadium. The post-game atmosphere was funereal.
Palpably sad, too, because it was the 23-year-old Harris-Tavita’s 54th and farewell appearance after he had announced his decision in May to step aside from the NRL.
Now was the night of September 16, 2023.
Harris-Tavita was in the gym, a workplace transformed into party central, heaving with joy-fuelled people who had just seen the One New Zealand Warriors sublimely dismiss Newcastle 40-10 to book a spot in NRL preliminary finals for the first time since 2011.
No one had a better grasp of the before and after than Harris-Tavita.
He couldn’t stop smiling that heady night not much more than two months ago. And he hasn’t stopped smiling since returning to the club to begin a preseason campaign which wasn't the remotest possibility this time last year.
“I’ve always walked into the club with a smile but it just feels different this time,” he said in his first interview with warriors.kiwi since hitting the training field last week.
“I was watching from afar and thought: ‘I want to be part of that. If I can get the opportunity to go back and build on what they’re building, then I’d take it.’
“I feel like I’m in a good spot today. I don’t want to look too far back or too far ahead. I’m just here and I’m ready to enjoy it.”
It was in May this year that Harris-Tavita’s comeback was revealed.
Following that ill-fated night in September last year, he went on to represent Toa Samoa at the Rugby League World Cup in England where he helped the island nation to its historic appearance in the final against the Kangaroos at Old Trafford (when he started at hooker).
Travel and just getting lost in life were on his programme after that including a stint in Samoa where he worked on a family farm.
It gave him a new perspective while also refreshing him for another shot at the NRL with the club where it all started with his NRL debut in 2019.
“I’m lucky I was in that position to be able to walk away. It’s something I don’t regret,” says Harris-Tavita.
“I’m also pretty blessed to be given this opportunity to be able to come back to the club especially where they’re at at the moment.”
