Peter Samu (born 17 December 1991) is an Australian professional

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player who is currently a loose forward for the in

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. He has represented Australia in international rugby. After several seasons playing in Australia and England, Samu gained his professional career breakthrough in New Zealand, firstly with in the

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and then the in Super Rugby.

Early life

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Samu first made his way in rugby playing for

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in his juniors before moving interstate to Brisbane and playing a handful of games in the first grade for Sunnybank Rugby. Samu played minimal first grade rugby in Brisbane, due to Wallabies (at the time) Jake Shatz and Liam Gill.

Professional career

In 2012, Samu moved to Sydney to play for Randwick where he played majority of his rugby in premier division for the

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. He played a strong season in 2012 and won the most valuable player of the year award for the Shute Shield competition. Samu also had two-year stint in England playing local club rugby for St. Ives from 2010. He later moved to New Zealand in 2014 and began playing for Waimea Old Boys in the Tasman club rugby competition.

Tasman and Crusaders

Samu first made the squad for the

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and helped himself to 4 tries in 9 games as the Mako reached the competition's final before losing out to . The following year, the men from

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reached the semi-finals of the

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with Samu once more playing 9 times while this time bagging 5 tries before scoring 3 times in 11 games in 2016 when the Makos were again defeated finalists, this time going down to . Samu played for the Knights development team in 2015 and was named as their player of the year before being promoted to their senior squad ahead of the

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. With competition for places tough among a star-studded Crusaders line-up which featured the likes of

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and

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, it was perhaps unsurprising that Samu only made 4 substitute appearances during his debut season. He was retained in the squad for

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Wallabies and Brumbies

On 29 May 2018, Samu joined the

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for the

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with the possibility of a

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call-up.

Statistics

List of international test tries

''As of 3 July 2022''

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Samu, Peter 1991 births Living people Australia international rugby union players Australian sportspeople of Samoan descent Australian rugby union players ACT Brumbies players Canberra Vikings players Crusaders (rugby union) players Rugby union flankers Rugby union number eights Rugby union players from Melbourne Tasman rugby union players Australian expatriate rugby union players Expatriate rugby union players in England Australian expatriate sportspeople in New Zealand Australian expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate rugby union players in New Zealand