Jerome Kaino re-signs with New Zealand Rugby

Blues and All Blacks back-rower Jerome Kaino has bucked the trend set by many of his Test team-mates and opted to re-sign with New Zealand Rugby through to the end of 2018.



Kaino's future had been the subject of debate for some time with the veteran forward weighing up offers from Japanese and European rugby, with the chance to continue his career at home and face the British & Irish Lions in 2017.



And so it proved that the comforts of home proved too good to resist with Kaino revealing the happiness of his young family was the key factor in his decision to remain in New Zealand.



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