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<p>For those with a keen eye for sporting trivia, the One New Zealand Warriors provided a special slice of it last week.</p>
<p>It was to do with the make-up of the 22-man squad named on Tuesday for the round 11 match against the Dolphins.</p>
<p>Not so much exactly which players were selected, rather a small but nonetheless key feature eight of them boasted.</p>
<p>The bookends of the list – Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad in jersey #1 to Moala Graham-Taufa in #23 – provided the answer. Hyphenated names.</p>
<p>In this instance no few than eight players selected – more than a third of the extended squad, had double-banger names with the other six being Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, Chanel Harris-Tavita, James Fisher-Harris, Eddie Ieremia-Toeava, Tanner Stowers-Smith and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.</p>
<p>When the group was trimmed to the playing 17 six hyphens remained with Ieremia-Toeava and Graham-Taufa omitted.</p>
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<p>It prompted the thought that this might be a record for an NRL side. It is, equal anyway.</p>
<p>The Warriors also had six players with hyphenated times in last year’s round 24 match against the Eels – Nicoll-Klokstad, Watene-Zelezniak, Graham-Taufa, Tuivasa-Sheck, Harris-Tavita and Addin Fonua-Blake.</p>
<p>In that match and last week against the Dolphins there was an opposition player with a hyphenated name – Eels prop Reagan Campbell-Gillard and Dolphins fullback Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow.</p>
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<p>Of the Warriors’ first 199 players from 1995 to 2014 there wasn’t one player in the hyphen category.</p>
<p>The first would be Raymond Faitala-Mariner when he became Warrior #200 in round eight in 2015.</p>
<p>Since then there have been 10 more, Tanner-Stowers the latest last week.</p>
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<p>Middleton confirms the first hyphenated name in the competition was Jack Gray-Spence for Eastern Suburbs in 1932. The next was Jack’s brother Jim, who played one game for St George in 1936, which caused some confusion for statisticians dealing with more than one J Gray-Spence.</p>
<p>Not until 1986 was there a third hyphenated player in Chris Macklin-Shaw at Illawarra.</p>
<p>Middleton says all up there have been 46 players with hyphenated names – 18 born in New Zealand – while there are currently 20 hyphenators in the NRL this season.</p>
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<p>For those with a keen eye for sporting trivia, the One New Zealand Warriors provided a special slice of it last week.</p>
<p>It was to do with the make-up of the 22-man squad named on Tuesday for the round 11 match against the Dolphins.</p>
<p>Not so much exactly which players were selected, rather a small but nonetheless key feature eight of them boasted.</p>
<p>The bookends of the list – Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad in jersey #1 to Moala Graham-Taufa in #23 – provided the answer. Hyphenated names.</p>
<p>In this instance no few than eight players selected – more than a third of the extended squad, had double-banger names with the other six being Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, Chanel Harris-Tavita, James Fisher-Harris, Eddie Ieremia-Toeava, Tanner Stowers-Smith and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.</p>
<p>When the group was trimmed to the playing 17 six hyphens remained with Ieremia-Toeava and Graham-Taufa omitted.</p>
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<p>It prompted the thought that this might be a record for an NRL side. It is, equal anyway.</p>
<p>The Warriors also had six players with hyphenated times in last year’s round 24 match against the Eels – Nicoll-Klokstad, Watene-Zelezniak, Graham-Taufa, Tuivasa-Sheck, Harris-Tavita and Addin Fonua-Blake.</p>
<p>In that match and last week against the Dolphins there was an opposition player with a hyphenated name – Eels prop Reagan Campbell-Gillard and Dolphins fullback Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow.</p>
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<p>Of the Warriors’ first 199 players from 1995 to 2014 there wasn’t one player in the hyphen category.</p>
<p>The first would be Raymond Faitala-Mariner when he became Warrior #200 in round eight in 2015.</p>
<p>Since then there have been 10 more, Tanner-Stowers the latest last week.</p>
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<p>Middleton confirms the first hyphenated name in the competition was Jack Gray-Spence for Eastern Suburbs in 1932. The next was Jack’s brother Jim, who played one game for St George in 1936, which caused some confusion for statisticians dealing with more than one J Gray-Spence.</p>
<p>Not until 1986 was there a third hyphenated player in Chris Macklin-Shaw at Illawarra.</p>
<p>Middleton says all up there have been 46 players with hyphenated names – 18 born in New Zealand – while there are currently 20 hyphenators in the NRL this season.</p>
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