{"id":740538,"date":"2026-06-16T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740538\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:57:17","slug":"gabrielle-vernier-gloucester-hartpury-sign-centre-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740538\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabrielle Vernier: Gloucester-Hartpury sign centre for 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vernier has represented France at several Six Nations and played in every one of their games during the 2021 and 2025 World Cups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was ruled out of the Six Nations this spring midway through the tournament with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cqxl770q3pdo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shoulder injury.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vernier began her career with Racing Club Nanterre and also represented Lille MRCV, winning the title with the team in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Her experience, physicality and game intelligence make her one of the standout centres in international rugby,&#8221; Gloucester-Hartpury head of rugby Dan Murphy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Beyond her obvious qualities on the field, she&#8217;s a driven competitor whose standards and professionalism will have a hugely positive influence throughout our environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vernier has represented France at several Six Nations and played in every one of their games during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-740538","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\/740538","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=740538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}