SARACENS HAVE BOLSTERED their second-row options with the signing of Waraths and Australia lock Will Skelton.
The 24-year-old will join the English champions on a short-term loan deal with immediate effect, although the length of his tenure with the north London club hasn’t been specified.
“We’re delighted to be able to bring a player of Will’s calibre into the group. He is an immensely talented rugby player with vast experience for a 24-year old tight-five forward,” said Saracens Director of Rugby Mark McCall, who lost South African lock Alistair Hargreaves to retirement in October.
“It’s no secret that we have been running low on a few bodies in the second-row department but we made it very clear that we wouldn’t compromise on quality when looking to add to our squad. In Will, we have a player who will certainly have an important role to play in our group over the next few months.”
Skelton has been capped 18 times by the Wallabies. He captained the side against the French Barbarians during their recent tour of the northern hemisphere but was later left out of the matchday squad for their defeats to Ireland and England.
Saracens say Skelton will be available for their Aviva Premiership, Anglo-Welsh Cup and European Champions Cup games during the duration of his short-term deal at Allianz Park.
The club are currently a point clear of Wasps at the top of the Aviva Premiership. They play Sale Sharks at home on Saturday in the European Champions Cup.
Let the black card witch-hunt begin. Lead by the masters of cynical play Tyrone, big surprise!
Donegal not happy with it neither that’s their game plan out the window
Dublin won an All Ireland with it, Mayo did it to them the year before. Nobody is innocent here, Harte’s Tyrone got 3 All Irelands by playing in the rules of the game it’s up to the rest to put it up to them as all teams play with the same rules.
are you saying dublin won a championship with cynical play?
No, I’m saying Dublin played by the rules of the sport to win, Mayo did the same to get to two All Irelands and Tyrone did it to tie for Team of the Decade. You play to win or you don’t want it badly enough Paul.
I think the black card will effect Donegal and Tyrone more beacuse they play on the edge I dont agree with the blackcard anyway as if a incident is bad enough to send a player off its a redcard
Still think, given time, it will be positive. There’ll always be mistakes made, but you can see that body checking the third man runner has already been stamped out.
It was a poor decision from Goldrick, no getting away from it.
Coldrick made a mistake – get over it! The black card is a great idea for the first 65 minutes of a match – teams will still do what it takes to get a win so I can still see lads getting dragged down, etc. Being able to replace only the first 3 black cards helps in this regard.
You shouldn’t be able to replace a black carded player in the last 5 mins.
Yeah 2 people who argued against it before it was introduced saying the same thing after it has led to confusion.. can’t wait until further controversies effect your own teams and we then have you all backing the black card and not being critical of officials or rules at all as its only a tyrone and donegal thing obviously. ..
First Mickey heart, now Peter Canavan.
they see the writing on the wall daragh the two blackcards should have been redcards