{"id":460392,"date":"2026-03-06T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460392\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:37:14","slug":"bristol-bears-sol-moody-and-louie-sinclair-sign-for-prem-rugby-side-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460392\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears: Sol Moody and Louie Sinclair sign for Prem Rugby side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Bears have signed Sol Moody and Louie Sinclair from second tier Champ side Cornish Pirates after the pair impressed on loan from Exeter Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moody has been in fine form in the Champ with the 20-year-old hooker scoring eight tries in nine appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sinclair has eight appearances for the Pirates under his belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players are set to complete the current Champ campaign in Penzance before making the move to the Bears in the summer prior to the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They become the third and fourth second tier signings as the Bears continue to plunder the Champ rugby scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kahlik Kareem and Tobi Wilson signed earlier this week from Worcester Warriors and Ealing Trailfinders, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bears director of rugby Pat Lam said the club were delighted to have secured the ex-Exeter duo for next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sol is an exciting young hooker with enormous potential,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolbearsrugby.com\/news\/moody-and-sinclair-to-join-bristol-bears-for-2026-27-season\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he told the club website, external<\/a>. &#8220;He&#8217;s dynamic and powerful, consistently wins collisions and has a real instinct for the try line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Louie is another ambitious young player determined to fulfil his potential. The standard of his performances in the Championship has really stood out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears have signed Sol Moody and Louie Sinclair from second tier Champ side Cornish Pirates after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}