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Gloucester look to Christian Wade to fill Louis Rees-Zammit vacancy

By Neil Fissler

27 Feb 2024

Racing's Christian Wade is joining Gloucester (Photo by Franco Arland/Getty Images)

Gloucester are attempting to bring ex-England international Christian Wade back to the Gallagher Premiership to replace Wales speedster Louis Rees-Zammit, who quit the club for the NFL.

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Rees-Zammit is ironically on the NFL’s International Player Pathway (IPP) since January, the same programme that the 32-year-old Wade joined when he quit Wasps in 2018.

Wade spent three seasons as a running back on the Buffalo Bills practice squad and has been playing for Racing 92 in the Top 14 since his return to Europe from America.

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The 2013 British and Irish Lions tourist, who won one Test cap for England, has scored two tries in eight games for Racing this season under Stuart Lancaster after scoring seven in nine games in his first season in France.

With George Skivington desperately trying to bring in fresh blood at Kingsholm, Gloucester are banking on Wade finding the magical touch that saw him touch down 66 times in 115 games with Wasps before leaving for the NFL.

The Cherry and Whites, who are next to bottom in the Premiership with nine defeats in 12 games, are having trouble getting deals over the line.

Henry Arundell and Joe Cokanasiga both turned down moves to Kingsholm, while Rees-Zammit and Adam Hastings, who is rejoining Glasgow Warriors, both turned their backs on new deals.

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Their only confirmed new signing for the 2024/25 season is Cardiff scrum-half Tomos Williams, who has played in Wales’ three recent Guinness Six Nations defeats.

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DC 9 minutes ago

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It says he’s England qualified, but he’ll likely play for Scotland. He’s come through Scotland's development pathway (which i’m surprised even exists) so should play for them or Fiji.

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BC 13 minutes ago

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I think that Ilona Maher’s only position, other than somewhere in the back row, is a bulldozing battering 12. She does not have the pace for a winger or the experience for a 13. USA with Kelter and Cantona, etc have some good centres already.

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CV 2 hours ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

You can’t suddenly have a national club game in NZ. Still, our model in NZ is too expensive to run. 26 provincial unions, a Maori union a school union and probably a university union too, all held up by NZR if they make a loss, who would be in dire straits without the Silver Lake money themselves NZR contracts and pays our SR players… And one team has to bring most of the cash in by playing 13 or 14 tests a season. We can’t keep going like that.

French club money hasn’t done much for their test sides because their clubs never cared much for the national team. They got foreign players in all the time (at the expense of home grown players) until they were forced by the FFR to select 15 home grown players for the matchday 23 in 2017. Only then they started to invest in academies. France have been in every U20 WC final since 2019 and only lost one. And the FFR and clubs actually started to work together, which resulted in France sending development sides on their July tours for years now. It’s only just started. French rugby is a beast and it’s awake now.

Clubs in Europe are there for themselves, in every sport. Not for the national team. That’s the union’s or federation’s job. EPL clubs don’t care much about the FA either. Most only field 2 or 3 Englsh players every game.

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CV 3 hours ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

I think we’ll find out in a few months. France will be competitive. Clubs don’t run players into the ground like they used and rest them more. Last weekend, Toulouse rested their test players against Bordeaux. No Ntamack, Mauvaka, Kinghorn, Capuozzo…. Bordeaux played LBB and Penaud, but took them off once they had a good lead.

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CV 3 hours ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

A strong comp has the best players in it and they’re from everywhere. That doesn’t mean you win a WC… Based on your logic, England or Spain should win every FIFA WC and the US every basketball WC. They don’t. In latest FIFA WC final, only two players that came on the park, played in their domestic league (two Frenchmen), the others didn’t.

5 out of 10 RWCs were won by teams with most of their players in SR, I would even argue 4 out of 10. For the first three SR did not exist, England won one, and of the last two SA won, they had their best players based outside SR with their 2019 win and weren’t even in SR for the last one.

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J Marc 4 hours ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Hum, maybe after answering every day to the same questions, players say what the journo wish to hear….

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Rodrigo N 4 hours ago

Santiago Mare: 'We are the team that everybody wants to beat'

Vamos Toto, vamos Pumas!!!!

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GP 6 hours ago

Ioane Moananu didn't join the Crusaders 'to wait around'

I will. I have heard a few people mention him.

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Andrew Nichols 7 hours ago

Aaron Smith and ‘three or four other All Blacks’ keen to play for AUNZ XV

Folau..Genia..Quade C and now Smith…any more pensioners want to front up?

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Head high tackle 8 hours ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Oh please!!!! Really????? So with 5mil people how do you expect NZR to suddenly have a club game that makes money? NZR does the best with its reality. And quite frankly its better than every other team in history.

Look at all the French club resourses, English club money, Irish club money… Whats it done for their Test sides? Sweet FA. Money doesnt buy wins unless its heading into Wayne Barnes offshore bank account.

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Head high tackle 8 hours ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

No doubt we will find out when we have a world club championship. I wonder if it will ever be held in NZ?

So all those superior comps in the NH and they cant win world cups? What can you possibably base your strength of comp on? I base it on results and so far almost every world cup has been won by SR players

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Head high tackle 8 hours ago

'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Geez mate if losing means you “didnt bother to look” at the opposition then Ireland didnt “Look” at the opposition in any world cup every. Nor France, Wales, Scotland,etc. At least England can say they “Looked” at the opposition at 1 WC I suppose.

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