Murphy Vaiaoga Utuariki Taramai (born 17 August 1992) is a New Zealand rugby union player, of Cook Islands and Samoan heritage, who currently plays as a loose forward for North Harbour in New Zealand's domestic Mitre 10 Cup and for the Blues in the international Super Rugby competition.
[4] Taramai was initially a professional rugby league footballer of some pedigree during his days attending Upper Hutt College just outside of Wellington.
Unfortunately for him, things didn't work out as well as expected in Australia and he returned home to New Zealand in 2012 and turned his attention to rugby sevens.
[2] Upon returning to New Zealand in 2012 he began playing sevens rugby with Wellington and was a member of the side which lifted the national title in 2014.
He started all 12 matches as Harbour lifted the Mitre 10 Cup Championship and earned promotion to the Premiership ahead of the 2017 season.