{"id":590934,"date":"2026-04-07T09:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590934\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:21:19","slug":"courtney-lawes-ex-england-captain-available-for-internationals-again-after-signing-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590934\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Lawes: Ex-England captain available for internationals again after signing for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

He was part of Saints’ Prem title-winning team of 2014 and captained the club to victory in the 2024 campaign, making his final appearance in the final victory over Bath at Twickenham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lawes has made 39 appearances in two seasons for Brive.<\/p>\n

“When I decided I wanted to come back to the Prem there were only a couple of teams I would have signed for,” he added. <\/p>\n

“Obviously Saints because of my history, but Sale were the other one because my wife’s family is all from Cheshire.<\/p>\n

“I’m really excited to be joining Sale. I’ve been out of the Prem now for a couple of years and I just want to finish my career playing at a the top level. <\/p>\n

“I think Sale have got a brilliant squad so hopefully I can add to that and we’ll see what we can do next year.”<\/p>\n

Sale’s director of rugby Alex Sanderson described Lawes’ arrival as a “sign of intent” from the owners to put the club “on the map”.<\/p>\n

“He wants to bring people with him and lead from the front and I love that. Plus he’s captained England and knows what it’s like to play and win on the biggest stage,” Sanderson said.<\/p>\n

“I can’t wait to see him train and play with us, but from a coaching perspective I’m really looking forward to working with someone I’ve heard so many good things about.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was part of Saints’ Prem title-winning team of 2014 and captained the club to victory in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-590934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590934","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=590934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}