The explosive English international third row will join the Herald ranks next season and will have the tough task of replacing Zach Mercer.
An Englishman hides another in MHR. Philippe Saint-Andre, who knows rugby well across the Channel, seems to have found a rare pearl again. According to telegramHerald The club have found the perfect replacement for Zach Mercer, who will leave the club at the end of the season to join Sam Simmonds at Gloucester.
Scoring 80 tries in 116 Premiership games for his club Exeter, the 27-year-old number 8 is a phenomenon. In the 2020–2021 season, he scored 21 tries in 23 matches in a single training session.
Hat-trick against MHR last season
However, he does not have the support of Eddie Jones, coach of XV of the Roses, who has “only” selected him 14 times in the last five seasons. The latter played in five of the last Six Nations tournament before missing the summer tour of Australia with a groin injury.
The author of four tries in two games against MHR, including a hat-trick in the European Cup defeat of Exeter (37-22) last year, will find the GGL Stadium in Montpellier jersey. Next season.
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