Former club academy product Luke Tongue has joined the coaching staff as a second assistant and head analyst.

At 29, Rufer is three years older than Tongue, but the pair have history.

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11 Oct: Bay of Plenty are using last year's NPC final heartbreak as motivation, as they look ahead to Otago in next week's semifinals in Dunedin

11 Oct: The Warriors have reportedly bolstered their backline from next season by signing one of the fastest players in the NRL

11 Oct: Taranaki coach Neil Barnes believes his first five-eighths Josh Jacomb is not ready for the All Blacks yet, heading into tonight's NPC quarter-final against Hawke's Bay in Napier

11 Oct: Otago have knocked out Waikato in the first NPC quarter-final, now it's the turn of Bay of Plenty and Tasman to tussle at Tauranga Domain today

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