Wales legend Leigh Halfpenny will make his Harlequins debut on Saturday against London Scottish at the Stoop in a pre-season friendly.
Wales legend Leigh Halfpenny will make his Harlequins debut on Saturday against London Scottish at the Stoop in a pre-season friendly.
Ex-England full-back Mike Brown has been named Barbarians captain for Thursday night’s tour game has Harlequins, the London club where he spent the majority of his career.
England skipper Owen Farrell will captain Saracens this Saturday at The Stoop but he won’t face Test teammate Marcus Smith as Harlequins have continued with his pre-season rest programme for the round two Gallagher Premiership match.
Harlequins have confirmed a 68-man senior squad - consisting of 43 senior players and bolstered by 25 from the club’s senior academy - for the upcoming 2022/23 season.
Ulster have swooped before for promising Irish-qualified age-grade talents at Harlequins and it looks as if they are about to go back to that well again.
At the conclusion of the Premiership U18 club season, we have rated the top three prospects at every position who are leaving school and eyeing up a career in the professional game.
A preview of Sunday's Premiership U18s Finals Day, when Harlequins, Sale Sharks, Bath, Wasps, Gloucester and Leicester Tigers will go head-to-head to decide the best team in the country this season.
A club-by-club look at the top talents about to set the U18 Premiership Academy league alight, all of whom will be keen to put down markers for professional contracts and senior opportunities in the coming seasons.