{"id":490801,"date":"2026-02-19T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490801\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:39:08","slug":"joe-jones-and-alessandro-heaney-harlequins-sign-prop-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490801\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Jones and Alessandro Heaney: Harlequins sign prop duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harlequins have signed Joe Jones and Alessandro Heaney on short-term deals to bolster their options at prop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experienced tight-head prop Jones joins Quins from Championship side Doncaster Knights until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old previously played in the Prem for Sale Sharks and has had spells with Cardiff Blues, Perpignan and Scarlets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heaney, 23, started out in Major League Rugby before joining Cornish Pirates and will head back to the United States next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Quins are without forwards Ethan Clarke and Jamie Miller, who both picked up injuries against Northampton Saints last weekend, while tight-head prop Luke Yendle has left The Stoop after Dragons ended his loan spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlequins have signed Joe Jones and Alessandro Heaney on short-term deals to bolster their options at prop. Experienced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-490801","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\/490801","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=490801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}