Three Royal Navy men’s rugby union players have signed for London Scottish as part of a new partnership with the maritime service.<\/p>\n
Leading Seaman (Electronic Warfare) Tam Lindsay, Air Engineering Technician Jack Wright and Lieutenant Declan Johnson have joined up with the team based in Richmond, London.<\/p>\n
LS (EW) Lindsay plays in the front row and plied his trade for Havant RFC last season in National 2.<\/p>\n
AET Wright, who is a hooker, broke through into the senior Navy side last year and scored two tries at the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham as the Army won 43 \u2013 42 with a last-gasp try.<\/p>\n
“Teaming up with the Navy and bringing a few of their players on board is incredibly exciting for us,” said London Scottish head coach Joe Gray.<\/p>\n
Lt Johnson operates as a second row and coaches the Royal Navy U23s while also playing for the Navy senior team.<\/p>\n
The second row was on the bench this year when the Navy got their revenge over the Army, winning 37 \u2013 33.<\/p>\n
“To have the opportunity to push myself further at a team with clear ambitions and strong connections to my home country, it seemed only right to sign for Scottish,” LS (EW) Lindsay said on the London Scottish website.<\/p>\n
“Excited for the coming challenges.”<\/p>\n
Alongside the Navy signings, the Exiles have brought in Army player Lance Corporal Solodrau Radianirova from the Rams, the National 1 side, for the season too.<\/p>\n
LCpl Radianirova started at full-back and scored a try against the Navy this year in the Army’s loss.<\/p>\n
He got his first cap for the British Army two years ago and has international experience with Fiji on the World 7s circuit.<\/p>\n
“Solodrau is an immensely talented player,” said Bryan Redpath, London Scottish’s director of rugby.<\/p>\n
“He can play multiple positions and is a hell of a threat with ball in hand.\u00a0He is going to have a major impact this season.”<\/p>\n
Royal Navy captain, Captain Jarrard Hayler, currently plays in the Champ with Hartpury RFC.<\/p>\n
Last season, Scottish finished ninth in the table with 51 points from their 22 games.<\/p>\n
London Scottish open their Champ rugby season away at Caldy on 4 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Royal Navy men’s rugby union players have signed for London Scottish as part of a new partnership…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-43022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}