{"id":469101,"date":"2026-03-11T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:10:09","slug":"sam-wolstenholme-exeter-chiefs-sign-scrum-half-from-bristol-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469101\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Wolstenholme: Exeter Chiefs sign scrum-half from Bristol Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter Chiefs have signed scrum-half Sam Wolstenholme from Bristol Bears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old, who made 19 appearances in three years for Bristol after arriving from Leicester Tigers, will join the Chiefs for the 2026-27 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeterchiefs.co.uk\/news\/wolstenholme-signs-for-chiefs-from-west-country-rivals\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website, external<\/a> he will be a good fit for Exeter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sam is a player we&#8217;re really pleased to be bringing on board at Chiefs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve actually looked at him several times over the years, and I&#8217;ve always thought he&#8217;s a very good player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a guy who knows the importance of his basic fundamentals but also is very aligned on how a team wants to play, driving a team to make sure they&#8217;re playing in the right areas of the field and following game plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s another important addition to the quality of the group that we&#8217;re going to try to build.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter Chiefs have signed scrum-half Sam Wolstenholme from Bristol Bears. The 26-year-old, who made 19 appearances in three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-469101","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\/469101","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=469101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}