Premiership: The Ins and Outs
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: When the new Premiership Rugby season gets underway a host of stars will be donning new colours for the very first time.
All 12 Premiership Rugby clubs have been busy revamping their squads in preparation for the big kick-off, and swathes of top-level talent has entered the League.
Stormers star Nizaam Carr has joined Wasps, while Ruan Dreyer, Jaco Kriel, Franco Marais and Franco Mostert all made their way to Gloucester from the South African franchise the Lions.
British & Irish Lion Alex Cuthbert has joined 2017 Champions Exeter, Chris Ashton has returned to these shores after joining Sale Sharks and All Black Charles Piutau has signed with new-boys Bristol Bears to name just a few.
There has also been plenty of business conducted between Gallagher Premiership Rugby clubs, with James Haskell swapping Wasps for Northampton Saints, experienced prop Logovi’I Mulipola moving north from Leicester Tigers to join Newcastle Falcons, and exciting youngster Nathan Earle arriving at Harlequins from Saracens.
This is what they’re all eager to get hold of 🏆
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— Premiership Rugby (@premrugby) August 23, 2018
Bath Rugby
IN: Will Chudley (Exeter Chiefs), Joe Cokanasiga (London Irish), Alex Davies (Yorkshire Carnegie), Victor Delmas (Colomiers), Ruaridh McConnochie (England Sevens), Lucas Noguera (Jaguares), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Jacques van Rooyen (Lions), Jackson Willison (Worcester Warriors)
OUT: Nick Auterac (Harlequins), Matt Banahan (Gloucester Rugby), Nathan Charles (Melbourne Rebels), Will Homer (Jersey Reds), Rory Jennings (London Scottish), Shaun Knight (Rouen), Josh Lewis (Dragons), Guy Mercer (released), Kane Palma-Newport (Colomiers), James Phillips (Sale Sharks), Ben Tapuai (Harlequins), Jeff Williams (released), James Wilson (Southland)
Bristol Bears
IN: John Afoa (Gloucester Rugby), Jake Armstrong (Jersey Reds), Luke Daniels (Ealing Trailfinders), Ollie Dawe (Academy), Tiff Eden (Nottingham), Jake Heenan (Connacht), Ed Holmes (Exeter Chiefs), James Lay (Bay of Plenty), Jordan Lay (Edinburgh), Tom Lindsay (Bedford Blues), Shaun Malton (Exeter Chiefs), Aly Muldowney (Grenoble), Piers O’Conor (Ealing Trailfinders), Tom Pincus (Jersey Reds), Charles Piutau (Ulster), Harry Randall, (Gloucester Rugby), George Smith (Queensland Reds), Nic Stirzaker (Melbourne Rebels), Harry Thacker (Leicester Tigers), Lewis Thiede (Ealing Trailfinders), Yann Thomas (Rouen), Jake Woolmore (Jersey Reds)
OUT: Ryan Bevington (Dragons), Gaston Cortes (Leicester Tigers), Max Crumpton (Harlequins), Tyler Gendall (Cornish Pirates), Alex Giltrow (released), Ryan Glynn (released), Ben Gompels (released), Jason Harris-Wright (released), David Lemi (released), Jordan Liney (released), Ross McMillan (released), Giorgi Nemsadze (Ospreys), James Newey (released), Jack O’Connell (Ealing Trailfinders), Thretton Palamo (released), Olly Robinson (Cardiff Blues), Billy Searle (Wasps), Soane Tonga’uiha (Ampthill), Dan Tuohy (Vannes), Jack Wallace (Richmond), Jordan Williams (Dragons), Rhodri Williams (Dragons)
Exeter Chiefs
IN: Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues)
OUT: Will Chudley (Bath Rugby), Harrison Cully (Brixham RFC), Ed Holmes (Bristol Bears), Kai Horstmann (retired), Shaun Malton (Bristol Bears), Carl Rimmer (retired), Julian Salvi (retired), Lachlan Turner (retired), Thomas Waldrom (Wellington Lions)
Gloucester Rugby
IN: Matt Banahan (Bath Rugby), Danny Cipriani (Wasps), Ruan Dreyer (Lions), Todd Gleave (London Irish), Gerbrandt Grobler (Munster), Tom Hudson (Academy), Jaco Kriel (Lions), Franco Marais (Lions), Franco Mostert (Lions), Will Safe (Academy)
OUT: John Afoa (Bristol Bears), Billy Burns (Ulster), Tom Denton (Ealing Trailfinders), David Halaifonua (Coventry), Richard Hibbard (Dragons), Motu Matu’u (London Irish), Ross Moriarty (Dragons), Cameron Orr (Western Force), Jacob Rowan (released), Andy Symons (Northampton Saints), Jeremy Thrush (Western Force)
Harlequins
IN: Nick Auterac (Bath Rugby), Max Crumpton (Bristol Bears), Alex Dombrandt (Cardiff Met), Nathan Earle (Saracens), Paul Lasike (Utah Warriors), Matt Symons (Wasps), Ben Tapuai (Bath Rugby)
OUT: Sam Aspland-Robinson (Leicester Tigers), Joe Gray (released), Jake Hennessey (released), Cameron Holenstein (Jersey Reds), Adam Jones (retired, Harlequins’ Scrum Coach), Charlie Matthews (Wasps), John Okafor (Yorkshire Carnegie), Charlie Piper (released), Jamie Roberts (Bath Rugby), Harry Sloan (Ealing Trailfinders), Winston Stanley (retired), Sam Twomey (London Irish)
Leicester Tigers
IN: Sam Aspland-Robinson (Harlequins), Gaston Cortes (Bristol Bears), David Denton (Worcester Warriors), Kyle Eastmond (Wasps), David Feao (Narbonne), Campese Ma’afu (Northampton Saints), Will Spencer (Worcester Warriors), Jimmy Stevens (Nottingham Rugby), Guy Thompson (Wasps)
OUT: Chris Baumann (released), Ben Betts (Ealing Trailfinders), Tom Brady (released), George Catchpole (retired), Luke Hamilton (Edinburgh), Joe Maksymiw (Connacht), Nick Malouf (Australia Sevens), George McGuigan (Newcastle Falcons), Logovi’i Mulipola (Newcastle Falcons), Afa Pakalani (released), Michele Rizzo (Petrarca), Dominic Ryan (released), Harry Thacker (Bristol Bears), Kyle Traynor (released)
Newcastle Falcons
IN: Tom Arscott (Rouen), Pedro Bettencourt (Carcassonne), Connor Collett (North Harbour), Rob Farrar (Academy), Guy Graham, (Hawick), Josh Hodge (Academy), Tom Marshall (Academy), Will Montgomery (Academy), George McGuigan (Leicester Tigers), Logovi’i Mulipola (Leicester Tigers), Paul Mullen, Nemani Nagusa (Aurillac), Cameron Nordli-Kelemeti (Academy), Morgan Passman (Academy), Johnny Williams (London Irish)
OUT: Nick Civetta (Doncaster), Max Davies (released), Ally Hogg (retired), Jake Ilnicki (Yorkshire Carnegie), Nili Latu (Hino Red Dolphins), Scott Lawson (retired), Maxime Mermoz (Toulouse), Evan Olmstead (released), Juan Pablo Socino (Edinburgh), Ben Sowrey (released), Rob Vickers (released), Craig Willis (Ealing Trailfinders)
Northampton Saints
IN: Dom Barrow (Leicester Tigers), Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Charlie Davies (Dragons), Will Davis (Ealing Trailfinders), Ben Franks (London Irish), Joe Gray (Harlequins), James Haskell (Wasps), Andrew Kellaway (NSW Waratahs), Taqele Naiyaravoro (NSW Waratahs), Andy Symons (Gloucester Rugby)
OUT: Will Allman (released), Matt Beesley (Ealing Trailfinders), Kieran Brookes (Wasps), Charlie Clare (Bedford Blues), Christian Day (retired), Jamie Elliott (Bedford Blues), Juan Pablo Estelles (Rosario), Ben Foden (Rugby United, New York), Nic Groom (Lions), Rob Horne (retired), Tom Kessell (Coventry), Campese Ma’afu (Leicester Tigers), Stephen Myler (London Irish), George North (Ospreys), Ben Nutley (Coventry), Jordan Onojaife (Ealing Trailfinders), Michael Paterson (released), Tom Stephenson (London Irish)
Sale Sharks
IN: Ewan Ashman (Academy), Chris Ashton (Toulon), Rouban Birch (Academy), Ciaran Booth (Academy), Connor Doherty (Academy), Sam Dugdale (Academy), Cal Ford (Academy), Rohan Janse Van Rensburg (Lions), Joe Jones (Perpignan), Teddy Leatherbarrow (Academy), James Phillips (Bath Rugby), Cameron Redpath (Academy), Bevan Rodd (Academy), Gus Warr (Academy), Kieran Wilkinson (Academy)
OUT: Will Addison (Ulster), Halani Aulika (Grenoble), Mike Haley (Munster), TJ Ioane (London Irish)
Saracens
IN: Alex Lewington (London Irish), David Strettle (Clermont), Tom Woolstencroft (London Irish)
OUT: Schalk Brits (retired), Danny Cutmore (Cornish Pirates), Nathan Earle (Harlequins), Mike Ellery (England Sevens), Mark Flanagan (Bedford Blues), Matt Hankin (retired), Kieran Longbottom (Western Force), Tadgh McElroy (Bedford Blues, loan), Jack Nay (Bedford Blues, loan) Chris Wyles (retired)
Wasps
IN: Joe Atkinson (London Scottish), Kieran Brookes (Northampton Saints), Nizaam Carr (Stormers), Ambrose Curtis (Manawatu), Antonio ‘TJ’ Harris (Academy), Michael Le Bourgeois (Bedford Blues), Charlie Matthews (Harlequins), Ben Morris (Nottingham), Ross Neal (London Scottish), Billy Searle (Bristol Bears), Brad Shields (Hurricanes), Lima Sopoaga (Highlanders), Will Stuart (Academy), Tom West (Academy), Zurabi Zhvania (Stade Francais)
OUT: Guy Armitage (Ealing Trailfinders), Danny Cipriani (Gloucester Rugby), Paul Doran Jones (released), Kyle Eastmond (Leicester Tigers), James Haskell (Northampton Saints), Sam Jones (retired), Alex Lundberg (Ealing Trailfinders), Brendan Macken (released), Marty Moore (Ulster), Guy Thompson (Leicester Tigers), Matt Symons (Harlequins)
🎥WATCH as we prepare for @UlsterRugby at the @RicohArena, we hear from @NizaamCarr8 about returning to the club after a successful stint last season and a Super Rugby campaign with @THESTORMERS pic.twitter.com/2BcVb3gKtW
— Wasps Rugby (@WaspsRugby) August 21, 2018
Worcester Warriors
IN: Ashley Beck (Ospreys), Callum Black (Ulster), Cornell du Preez (Edinburgh), Michael Fatialofa (Hurricanes), Michael Heaney (Doncaster Knights), Jono Lance (Queensland Reds), Isaac Miller (London Scottish), Farai Mudariki (Stado Tarbes Pyrenees), Scott van Breda (Jersey Reds), Francois Venter (Cheetahs), Duncan Weir (Edinburgh)
OUT: Biyi Alo (Soyaux Angouleme), David Denton (Leicester Tigers), Michael Dowsett (Canon Eagles), Andrew Durutalo (Ealing Trailfinders), Grayson Hart (London Scottish), Kurt Haupt (SWD Eagles), Tom Heathcote (released), Ben Howard (released), Donncha O’Callaghan (retired), Sam Olver (Ealing Trailfinders), Will Spencer (Leicester Tigers), Max Stelling (Hino Red Dolphins), Peter Stringer (retired), Huw Taylor (Dragons), Jackson Willison (Bath Rugby)
