Hugh Blake has fitted a lot in over the past two seasons since he left Dunedin at the end of the 2014 season.
Blake, still only 23, is still wearing the blue and gold but now it is for Bay of Plenty and not Otago.
He will turn out for the home side in the match against Otago in Tauranga.
The openside flanker left Otago at the end of 2014 season, initially picking up a short term contract at Edinburgh.
"Through injury I managed to pick up a full contract and then got picked in the Scotland squad. Then having a contract with Scotland I was changed from Edinburgh to Glasgow," he said.
"That was a lot better as Glasgow were getting a lot more wins. But they signed an Italian No 7 [Simone Favaro] and we were battling for game time. I was still getting 10 minutes here and there.
"But I wanted to play more so I asked the Scottish union and got released to play for the sevens team. I ended up playing nine tournaments around the world. In between times I was still going back to Glasgow and I managed to play nine games for them during the season."
The Scotland sevens team had a season which ended well when they won the final tournament of the season in London.
Blake said the win was a great experience.His passport has got a hammering and with the new season just under way in the northern hemisphere, he asked the Scotland Rugby Union if he could go on loan for four months and play back in New Zealand.
The union agreed and Bay of Plenty quickly came calling.Blake said he was enjoying the Bay of Plenty climate after four winters in two and a-half years.
He still had a contract with the Scottish Rugby Union to go back to — he played one test against Ireland in August last year — but said if something in New Zealand came out of his season with Bay of Plenty he would jump at the chance.Blake, who played 18 games for Otago, was looking forward to locking horns with his former team mates.
"They haven’t changed much at all. It was only two years ago I left. It still seems like yesterday. It’s going to be nice to play them again.
"I had a couple of injuries with Otago at a bad time and I plateaued with them. But it is good to be back in New Zealand and playing some running rugby."
Originally from South Waikato, Blake, who qualifies for Scotland through his grandparents, was yet to finish an accountancy and finance degree he started at the University of Otago but he was "chipping away" at it.
