2023-2024 transfers

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Karl Wilkins joins USM Sapiac on 2 year contract. He never really got a chance and I had high hopes for him.

We definitely need another lock/ back rower now!

 

[Becca]

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Karl Wilkins joins USM Sapiac on 2 year contract. He never really got a chance and I had high hopes for him.

We definitely need another lock/ back rower now!

They'll be asking you to get your boots on if we carry on losing so many players !

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Crotty's been back training with the Crusaders due to their injury crisis.

Honestly thought he'd retired a couple of seasons ago; turns out he's just been in Japan. Bolter at 12 for the ABs?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Gary Graham,

Graham struggling to land a new deal

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Christ that's depressing,
The sport is in a real state, atm - so many players looking for contracts

 

[TRF_Olyy]

1yr extension for Josh Beaumont and an excellent pun ti tle

The Beau must go on…. | Sale Sharks

“At my age I know I have to put the work in during the off season,” says Josh Beaumont as he gets in the car to head to the gym. It’s just over a week since your Sharks fell agonisingly short in the Premiership final but despite having another five weeks off before the pre-season […]

www.salesharks.com

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Harlequins Sign Academy Player Roma Zheng

www.quins.co.uk

We may as well just slap a quins academy badge on Cardiff Met at this point

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Harlequins Sign Academy Player Roma Zheng

www.quins.co.uk

We may as well just slap a quins academy badge on Cardiff Met at this point

On the topic of BUCS wingers, someone really needs to snap up Kofi Barton-Byfield from Exeter. Absolute freak. He came through the Bath age groups but I don't think he has any involvement with them anymore. Would love for Chiefs to sign him but if it hasn't happened by now then I don't think it's going to.

 

[Stade Rochelais]

Transfert Top 14 - Leicester Fainga'Anuku s'engage officiellement avec Toulon

Leicester Fainga’Anuku s'engage officiellement avec Toulon

Toulon tient le remplaçant de Cheslin Kolbe. Le club varois a officialisé l'arrivée pour deux saisons du néo-zélandais Leicester Fainga’Anuku.

www.rugbyrama.fr

 

[Everyday EggChaser]

Harlequins Sign Academy Player Roma Zheng

www.quins.co.uk

We may as well just slap a quins academy badge on Cardiff Met at this point

Mad how an establishment producing some of the highest caliber young English talent is a Welsh university. Wales tried to do something with USW and coleg y cymoedd for like a 5 year pathway

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Isn't part of it just that they (and Loughborough, and Bath, though the latter is more Olympics-and-Winter-Olympics-sports-oriented) are the best Sports Unis in the country so attract the best players? Like how Hartpury does at college level?

Zheng was in our academy but left to go to uni at Cardiff, I imagine the rugby aspect of it played a bigger part than the academic

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Isn't part of it just that they (and Loughborough, and Bath, though the latter is more Olympics-and-Winter-Olympics-oriented) are the best Sports Unis in the country so attract the best players? Like how Hartpury does at college level?

Zheng was in our academy but left to go to uni at Cardiff, I imagine the rugby aspect of it played a bigger part than the academic

Naturally it's just quite a symbiotic relationship. The best sports unis attract the best players, and then those best players become even better because they're at the best sports unis. The facilities at Loughborough in particular are mental; comfortably better than just about any Prem or Welsh URC team, hence why England sometimes train there.

 

[Geordie]

Graham struggling to land a new deal

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Christ that's depressing,
The sport is in a real state, atm - so many players looking for contracts

Apparently another French side Grenoble has been relegated on financial irregularities so Carcassonne might be lucky and stay up. Maybe Garys contract might still stand. I hope so.

 

[Geordie]

Falcons have signed Argentina Tight head Eduardo Bello.

 

[big ginger 8]

Dyanti - Sharks

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Dyanti - Sharks

Really interested to see how this pans out.

He'll be rusty of course, but if he can get anywhere near where he was before the ban, he'll be a serious danger!

Of course, he could be awful if it was all the doping

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Shocking that he's allowed back.

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Shocking that he's allowed back.

He's been banned for 4 years tbf, do you think it should be a life ban?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

He's been banned for 4 years tbf, do you think it should be a life ban?

Yes, because if he's stupid enough to get caught, when literally every other player in the game is sauced up to the eyeballs, then he's a danger to himself and everyone else around him

Jesse Kriel must be so disappointed to be on the same side as him

 

[Bada-Bing!]

He's been banned for 4 years tbf, do you think it should be a life ban?

Yes. He can still benefit from the steroids going forwards. Same argument against Gatlin being allowed back after the second time caught cheating.

And yes let's face it we know it's pretty endemic in SA rugby the size of their monsters.

 

[die_mole]

Yes, because if he's stupid enough to get caught, when literally every other player in the game is sauced up to the eyeballs, then he's a danger to himself and everyone else around him

Jesse Kriel must be so disappointed to be on the same side as him

Honestly that first part convinced me. It does take a special talent to get popped in today's sport.