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New hooker on board at Gloucester after raid on Pirates
By Jon Newcombe
Gloucester have bolstered their depleted hooker stocks by signing Morgan Nelson from Cornish Pirates.
With George McGuigan sidelined with a hamstring injury for an extended period of time, Gloucester have been reliant on Jack Singleton and Seb Blake for the past month.
But Nelson has now come on board, joining the Cherry & Whites with immediate effect.
It continues the long tradition of player transfer between the two clubs with players like Rob Cook and Jonny Bentley, and more recently Kyle Moyle, having made the move in the past.
Former Wales U18 international Morgan has made 49 appearances for the Pirates, scoring an impressive 29 tries.
Nelson could make his debut against Newcastle at Kingsholm on Saturday, the day he turns 25, which would make for an extra special birthday as the Ross-on-Wye-born player was a Gloucester fan growing up.
Nelson said: "It's a privilege to be back at Kingsholm. Spending some time in the Academy here when I was a youngster, the dream was always to pull on the Cherry & White at Kingsholm.
"I feel like I've developed a lot as a player and a person from my time at both Cornish Pirates and Cardiff Met and I'm ready to make the step up and test myself at the next level.
"I'm really grateful for the opportunity and I'm looking forward to getting started."
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Agreed. As a Saffa I have much respect for the ABs. I also have to say given any option I would ONLY prefer to lose to ABs. To lose to England is probably the most embarrassing think to happen to either of us.
There was a time when both of us lost to England and we both hated it. Thankfully those days are behind us. Kudos to you guys, kudos to ABs. But dear old BS seems to hate us Boks. No idea why.
Go to commentsI got the sense that holding him to it was kickback from SB and the rfu smarting at being jilted quite so soon, so unexpectedly and so publicly.
Seem to remember that they spoke to Gustard before appointing Joe and you really have to think he would have come in at a higher level?
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