By Jon Geddes & Clay Cross

IT’S no wonder Waratahs’ forward Hugh Sinclair has a smile on his face this week.

His club Northern Suburbs are in the Shute Shield finals and he re-signed with NSW for another season on Friday.

Sinclair is passionate about Norths and pulling on the red and black jumper whenever he has the opportunity.

“I love it, the reason I played Super Rugby was because of my journey through Norths,” Sinclair told Rugby News after doing the hard yakka in Saturday’s 31-10 win over Manly at Manly Oval.

“It’s awesome to see Cadeyrn Neville and Hayden Thompson-Stringer playing for Manly and Lalakai Foketi has been playing for Manly as well.