Charnze Nicoll‑Klokstad

The 26-year-old Nicoll-Klokstad signed a three-year contract to bring him back to his original NRL club after spending the previous four seasons with the Canberra Raiders.
Nicoll-Klokstad made his NRL debut with the One New Zealand Warriors in their 14-13 ninth-round win over the Sydney Roosters at Mount Smart Stadium in 2017. He went on to score seven tries in seven appearances in his rookie season but he didn’t add to his tally in 2018 before leaving to link up with the Raiders in 2019.
In four seasons there he scored 23 tries in 67 matches while averaging almost 160 metres a game.
As well as playing for the Cook Islands he played three Tests for the Kiwis in 2019, represented the Māori All Stars in 2021 and was in New Zealand’s squad at the 2022 Rugby League World Cup.
Of Cook Islands, Māori and Norwegian descent, Nicoll-Klokstad played his junior football in Auckland before moving to Melbourne where he joined the Altona Roosters.
Signed by the Storm he played for the club in the under-20 National Youth Competition in 2014 and 2015 before linking with the One New Zealand Warriors. He was a regular for club’s New South Wales Cup side playing all 24 matches in 2016 and being named the Vodafone Warriors’ NSW player of the year. In his NRL rookie season in 2017, Nicoll-Klokstad won the One New Zealand Warriors’ clubman of the year accolade.
His first season with the Raiders was a breakout year in which he scored 11 tries and appeared in the grand final, making a game-high 237 metres in his side’s 8-14 loss to the Sydney Roosters.