Just the four tries a game would be lovely, thanks.
Lowe will do well to repeat his heroics of earlier this year when he lines up for the Highlanders in a Super Rugby Pacific game for the first time.
The 26-year-old winger was at his old team, the Chiefs, when he achieved the rare feat of crossing the line four times in a 51-27 win over the Waratahs in Melbourne in April.
Right place at the right time? Or a sign of things to come as he joins a new club that found try-scoring just a little tricky this year?
"That was a real special night for me," Lowe told the Otago Daily Times yesterday.
"I hadn’t played for a few weeks, and I think we had a few injuries and then Covid hit, so I got my opportunity.
"Yeah, I managed to get a few tries and ended up getting a few games after that. It was probably the highlight of my Super Rugby career so far."
Lowe joins his third Super Rugby side.
The Hawke’s Bay and Maori All Blacks winger was limited to four games for the Hurricanes over three years, and played 18 times for the Chiefs in 2021-22, before deciding a move to the Highlanders was to be the next step in his career.
"I enjoyed my time at the Chiefs but I just saw an opportunity down here and thought I’d take it," Lowe said.
"They offered me a contract and I’m just pretty excited to get into it. Everyone’s been really welcoming.
"I just want to have a big year, really. The last two years has probably been my first time playing week-in, week-out, and I just really want to get as much game time as I can and play as well as I can."
Lowe has some familiar faces around him in the form of current or former Hawke’s Bay players Marino Mikaele-Tu’u, Hugh Renton and injured halfback Folau Fakatava, and he knows a bunch of other players in the squad.
He is staying with Mikaele-Tu’u while he waits for partner Tara, who will work remotely for a mortgage broker, to arrive in January.
Lowe (Ngati Pikiao) has played half a dozen times for the Maori All Blacks and has loved the experience.
His mother and older brother speak te reo Maori and it is something he will look into after his rugby career.
"It’s something you have to really stick at, and put the time in. My mum does classes almost every night, so maybe eventually."
All Blacks selection was a goal but not an overpowering motivation, Lowe said.
Playing consistently well for the Highlanders had to be the priority and he would see what happened after that.
All going well, Lowe will have his near-namesake on the other wing next year, and he and Jona Nareki could form a lethal double act for the Highlanders.
"I’ve played against Jona a lot but never really met him properly until now. He’s a good fella."
Lowe played with two former Highlanders, Josh Ioane and Teariki Ben-Nicholas, at King’s College in Auckland.
He has not closely followed the drama in the 1A competition recently — principals have decided on a television blackout and have broadly accused the media, both mainstream and social, of putting undue pressure on the young men — but has fond memories of his two years at King’s after transferring from St John’s College, in Hastings.
"It was a pretty big deal for me to move up there. I’d never even been to Auckland before.
"I’m glad I went. Rugby is huge up there, and it’s a really high level. It was my first time going into something that was near-professional, and it prepared me for what it’s like outside school."
