Rugby Union: Regan moves to Bath
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Your support makes all the difference.Mark Regan, the Lions hooker, is set to leave Bristol and will join his new team-mates at Bath on 1 August for their first pre-season training session.
The move comes after Bath increased their offer to buy out the remaining 10 months of Regan's contract at Bristol. The offer is believed to be around pounds 100,000 and no longer includes a player exchange.
"He is a quality player who is coming to join a quality squad and he is there to take the team forward, along with the other hookers," Bath's coach, Andy Robinson, said.
Newcastle's England A centre, Andy Blyth, is poised to join Harlequins in a pounds 30,000 move. Blyth, who played for West Hartlepool before signing for Newcastle last summer, suffered several injuries last.
He believes it is time to move on because the Lion Alan Tait has signed a new one-year contract to play alongside Va'aiga Tuigamala.
Newcastle's manager, Rob Andrew, has signed the Orrell wing, James Naylor, and offered full-time contracts to the England Under 21 pair, the hooker Richard Horton and the prop Dave Barnes - and to full- back Stuart Legge and scrum-half Chris Simpson-Daniels.
West Hartlepool's director of rugby, Mike Brewer, has made his third signing as he builds up the Brierton Lane squad for an assault on an immediate return to the top flight.
Having landed the Western Samoan scrum-half, Tu Nu'uali'itia, and the Ireland Under 21 full-back, Emmett Farrell, Brewer has signed the 23-year- old Wellington second row Russell Schrader, who holds a Dutch passport. Highly rated in New Zealand, he stands 6ft 7in, and weighs 16st.
Brewer is still on the look-out for a new stand-off before West Hartlepool take on Newcastle in a warm-up match at Kingston Park on 17 August.
Moseley have signed Leicester's 27-year-old back-row forward Bill Drake- Lee. He follows Steve Hackney and John Liley from the Tigers to the Second Division club.
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