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Denton to leave for Premiership rival, while Du Preez joins Worcester

David Denton leaving Worcester

Warriors have confirmed that their Scotland international David Denton will be leaving the club at the end of the season.

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RugbyPass understands that Denton will join Premiership rivals Leicester Tigers.

The 28-year-old has made 14 appearances for Warriors since moving to Sixways last summer.

Warriors Director of Rugby Alan Solomons spoke to warriors.co.uk and said: “We’re sorry to see Dents go but that’s the nature of professional sport. Dents is a really good bloke. We know he’ll continue to give his all in the Blue and Gold for the rest of the season and we wish him all the best in the future.”

Denton said: “I’ve really enjoyed my short time here and would like to thank the Club and fans for making me feel so welcome and giving me opportunities which have seen me return to the international fray with Scotland. I wish Warriors the best of luck in the coming years and will make sure I do the jersey proud till the end of the season.”

Meanwhile Denton’s international teammate Cornell du Preez is headed for Sixways

He will be joining ahead of the 2018/19 campaign on a two-year deal.

He is the third new signing set to arrive this summer, after the announcements of prop Callum Black and centre Ashley Beck.

Du Preez has made six appearances for Scotland, with his most recent in this season’s NatWest 6 Nations against Wales.

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The back row made the move to Edinburgh Rugby in 2013 where he has made 96 appearances, scoring 13 tries, and also helped the Scottish side to the European Challenge Cup final in 2015 and also the quarter-finals of the competition last season.

Du Preez previously played for Eastern Province Kings in South Africa where he made 23 appearances and crossed for 11 tries, as well as playing 16 times for the Kings in the 2013 Super Rugby season.

Born in Port Elizabeth, Du Preez also represented the South Africa Under 20s side in 2011.

“I’m thoroughly excited about reuniting with Alan Solomons and moving to England to play for Warriors.” Du Preez told warriors.co.uk

“I’ve always wanted to test myself in the Premiership and look forward to my next challenge. I’d like to thank Edinburgh for the past few years where I’ve really enjoyed my time and will continue to give my all ’til the end of the season.”

Warriors Director of Rugby Solomons added: “Cornell is a fantastic player with exceptional skills. His all-round game will be of huge benefit to the team. He will also bring a great deal of physicality, power and experience to our forward pack.”

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Occidental Offside 31 minutes ago
Barrett's Irish adventure is propelling the Hurricanes to new heights



I guess the underlying theme is that no team in NZ has ever used a South African type rush D before, and the only time they ever get to see it is when the ABs play

SA! Jordie is the common factor in both worlds.



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JW 1 hour ago
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I enjoyed the way he spoke to ARP, he will get on well with everyone by the sounds of his attitude, but boy oh boy does he sound way out of his depth.

Blair brings a more intimate knowledge of the European game to the All Blacks set-up.



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Bazzallina 1 hour ago
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Leroy back at 13 again this WE thought he went well last week and for BOP in NPC before call up to ABs … at the least you would think this makes him perfect for bench and impact dude got that lil extra and always gets stuck in Jonah Lowe at landers being going well as a kinda undersized 13

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Icefarrow 1 hour ago
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What even is that numbering?

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Otagoman II 1 hour ago
The All Blacks need Rennie, but they also need the public

It’s because many of those kiwi league fans have ties to those teams going back decades from former residence or work or family links before the Auckland Warriors existed.

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KwAussie 2 hours ago
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Looking forward to this. I think that while the challenges to the BlitzBoks and Silver Ferns are real, it’d be a huge upset if they didn’t win. Both teams have multiple threats across the field and while individually there are as big or bigger threats in the other teams, none of them have quite so many that can be relied on.

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KwAussie 2 hours ago
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It would be great if that happened and the SVNS 1 was a bigger tournament

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Brett McKay 2 hours ago
Zac Lomax: ‘He's an elite league player but it's a huge challenge with a short runway in union'

Laurie FIsher’s point about the importance of the Force players’ comms around him on the field was bang on, I’ve probably not done it justice in the quote in this column..

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John Breslin 2 hours ago
The All Blacks need Rennie, but they also need the public

Respectfully, the national union team have also fairly choked/shyte the nest, in recent times

A 2019 RWC exit which was so limp it didn't live up to the billing of even a ‘semi’ (or half-mast)



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Jordon 2 hours ago
The All Blacks need Rennie, but they also need the public

You can like marmite and peanut better, but can you have them at the same time??

On another note what truly baffles me is when kiwi league fans don’t just support the warriors, but they actually have their favourite AUSSIE teams 🤮



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Icefarrow 2 hours ago
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Yeah, cause it’s so hard to sell out a stadium when you’re the only team in the country. Yawn. And yeah, the Warriors do suck. Any team that's been around 30 years and can’t win a comp once does indeed suck.

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John Breslin 2 hours ago
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I like Mike, unpretentious and a straight shooter

That was 20 years go when the ABs probably were the only team to throw the ball around and had it trademarked



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Never stick to rugby, JW

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John Breslin 2 hours ago
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Christ, you're not a united fan???

God no, Ed 😪



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BH 3 hours ago
The All Blacks need Rennie, but they also need the public

I don’t know who you hang around with or talk to. Must be rugby nerds. The Warriors are very popular all around the country. Walk around any small town and you’re most likely to see someone wearing a Warriors jersey. Especially kids. They’re doing signings, training sessions and interviews within the community and at schools.

They have sold out three games in a row in Christchurch.



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Karlos G 3 hours ago
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You're absolutely spot on, SR has become a tryfest last few seasons entertaining crowd pleasing rugby but poor defensive efforts or strategy and that translated to the ABs, when they couldn't play their running game they looked clueless with no gameplan!

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Mzilikazi 3 hours ago
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Also need to think of covering for him a lot more than for a player who has years of experience in Union. He may well make a lot of positional errors in these early games.

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Mzilikazi 3 hours ago
Zac Lomax: ‘He's an elite league player but it's a huge challenge with a short runway in union'

Lomax has one talent that does not change across the codes….his goal kicking. He is a very good striker of the ball, and from watching him in State of Origin, he has reasonable range, being able to convert from the sideline. Rare to see really long kicks of 45 m plus in League, so would not be sure what Lomax is like from those distances.

The 76% success rate for 742 points is impressive, and if he becomes an established starting player for the Force he would be a great backup for Ben Donaldson…also listed at 76% success.



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Spew_81 4 hours ago
Barrett's Irish adventure is propelling the Hurricanes to new heights

“Terrible shortage of top forwards between Retallick and the 2020s”. This was partly caused by the signaling from the All Blacks coaches. The players that were getting picked we generally of the more ‘athletic’/’skilled’ type. Grafters just weren’t getting a look in. So many left, or just never got the opportunity to develop.

For instance, Michael Fatialofa could’ve been a very dependable, very hard working lock. But the All Blacks coaches wanted Tuipulotu as he has a higher ‘athletic’/’skilled’ ceiling. The issue was it wasn’t until about 2022 that Tuipulotu started really playing like an ‘80 minute’ footballer.



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Carlos 4 hours ago
Barrett's Irish adventure is propelling the Hurricanes to new heights

It’s that I am mostly interested in Geoff’s wrap. Many articles appear to be very Aussie specific. Harry writes somewhere else. I did like JD’s article on his Underdog.

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