Aaron Smith- What a Lad

In this episode I catch up with All Black legend, Aaron Smith. In 2007 both Aaron and I missed out on the NZ u19s and I clearly remember sitting in the room with him afterwards both gutted! Fast forward 13 years and the man is now the most capped All Black number 9 in history with 95 caps, while he's also played 150 games for the Highlanders! Thats not to mention the fact he has also represented the Manawatu Turbos, the NZ Maoris and the North side. It's fair to say there's not many players left in the game that have played that amount of games while staying loyal to just 1 club at each level.  The man they call Nuggy also shares all sorts of good stories from his journey to the top, starting as a small Fielding lad who just loved to pass. There is plenty of valuable lessons in this episode for any aspiring young rugby player and as you'll hear Nuggy is an absolute lad! As always if you enjoy this episode, please share it and if you want to ask any of my guests a question or just follow the journey head to the link below https://www.instagram.com/what_a_lad_podcast/?hl=en   This episode was brought to you by 3 great partners and below is how you can get involved with them  Pure Sport CBD,  to try some of this unreal product head to https://puresportcbd.com/ and enter whatalad20 in the promo code for 20% off. I've had heaps of good feedback from this! Fortune Favours, to purchase any product with a 15% discount head to https://www.fortunefavours.beer/ and put whatalad in the promo code. Delivered to your doorstep anywhere in NZ. Mascaped, to purchase any product from them with a discount Go to http://manscaped.com/ and get 20% off + free shipping with the code: WHATALAD #manscapedpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.