Boom recruit Tayler Adams finding feet at TG Millner on road back to Super Rugby
By Matt Findlay
Boom Eastwood recruit Tayler Adams has been through the wringer in the last couple of years, the 25-year-old five-eighth’s reached some dazzling highs but his resolve has been tested with some shattering lows too.
But through it all, his goal’s never changed - “it was Super Rugby, it always has been and it still is.”
Adams, a former Junior All Black, achieved that goal in 2018 after being picked up by and making two appearances for the Melbourne Rebels too, but just as his career looked to be taking off he was crippled by injury.
Following that Super season Adams returned to New Zealand to direct traffic in the Southland Stags’ Mitre 10 Cup campaign, but didn’t make it through the pre-season.
An ankle injury and resulting surgery cost him his spot on the Rebels’ roster this year.
“I was really looking forward to the Mitre 10 Cup season, getting back to that level and taking control of a team, but I got hurt in our last pre-season game,