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A Familiar Face is back (on loan)
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: January 30, 2020, 4:01 am
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JOE GRAY RE-JOINS HARLEQUINS
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Thursday, 30th January 2020 @ 10:00
HOOKER JOE GRAY HAS RETURNED TO HARLEQUINS, JOINING FROM
SARACENS, TO ADD DEPTH AND EXPERIENCE TO THE SQUAD CURRENTLY
HEAPED WITH INJURIES.
The 31-year-old, who has joined Harlequins on loan until the end
of the 2019/20 season, was part of the Harlequins squad that won
the Premiership title in 2012, having claimed the European
Challenge Cup the previous year.
Following the successful 2011/12 season, Gray was given the
chance to represent his country, touring South Africa with
England and playing in two uncapped matches. In 2014 he earned a
full international cap coming off the bench against New Zealand.
Upon re-joining Harlequins, the former Northampton Saints and
Saracens hooker said: “Harlequins has always had such a special
place in my heart and is where most of my special memories come
from. When I heard there was an opportunity to come back, as
they are struggling with injuries, Sarries were nice enough to
release me to come and play some rugby. I am extremely excited
to get back out there with a lot of close friends.”
Harlequins’ Head of Rugby Paul Gustard added: “Joe is a true
Harlequin, having come through the Club and winning the
Premiership back in 2012 and the Challenge Cup the year before.
It is brilliant that we are able to bring him back to his club
and we are extremely thankful to Saracens for working with us to
allow this to happen.
“All of our senior hookers are injured currently, and we have
been looking for some extended period of time to get some extra
quality in to help us. We are of course delighted that we were
able to bring Joe ‘back home’. It is very clear he is well loved
at the Club by staff and players as his first team meeting back
demonstrated.
“He is of course a top-quality player with strong set piece
fundamentals and will be a great asset once more to the Club. He
is an upbeat, great guy with strong positive energy which is
awesome to be around and add to our group.”
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Re: A Familiar Face is back (on loan)
DIR By: A222Quin
Date: January 30, 2020, 4:05 am
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Welcome back Joe.
#Post#: 37470--------------------------------------------------
Re: A Familiar Face is back (on loan)
DIR By: TootingQuin
Date: January 30, 2020, 4:06 am
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Glad to see we're helping Sarries reduce their wage bill.
Also, welcome back Joe!
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Re: A Familiar Face is back (on loan)
DIR By: Vernon74
Date: January 30, 2020, 4:07 am
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Ha ha - Sarries were 'nice' enough to release him! I wonder why
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Re: A Familiar Face is back (on loan)
DIR By: quins4life
Date: January 30, 2020, 4:08 am
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Hopefully this doesn’t mean Elia’s injury from Saturday is
serious. He’s been fantastic so far this season... but welcome
back Joe Gray. Not a bad option to have
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Re: A Familiar Face is back (on loan)
DIR By: InsertQuinsPunHere
Date: January 30, 2020, 4:10 am
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Welcome back Joe Gray!
A side note: "Sarries were nice enough to release me" - nothing
at all to do with reducing their wage bill then!
Edit: ninja'd by others on the latter point.
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Re: A Familiar Face is back (on loan)
DIR By: honkytonk
Date: January 30, 2020, 4:21 am
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Good move. We only have Ellia and Musk with no sign of
Crumpton, Buchanan and Baldwin for quite a while it would seem.
(I know we have Riley but he is very young, we need some
experience
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Re: A Familiar Face is back (on loan)
DIR By: never sleep
Date: January 30, 2020, 4:31 am
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Great news. I was sad that we let him go.
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Re: A Familiar Face is back (on loan)
DIR By: T-Bone
Date: January 30, 2020, 5:33 am
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Good to see him back. I heard that we tried to get him back for
the Clermont game and McCall told Gustard where to go. Who knows
if it's true. I can't imagine that Gray will be with Sarries
next season, so as well as helping us when we've got real
problems with injuries, it helps him as he needs to be playing
if he wants to secure a contract somewhere next year. At 31 he
should still have a few more years in him. If he plays well I'd
happily keep him next season - I imagine Buchanan will be off
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Re: A Familiar Face is back (on loan)
DIR By: Quins-Az
Date: January 30, 2020, 6:58 am
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This is great news, was sad to see him go!
Good to have some experience now at hooker
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