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Elliott Stooke on MHR: Five things to know about Wasps’ best English second line in 2022

Elliott Stooke on MHR: Five things to know about Wasps’ best English second line in 2022

Troubled by the absence or long-term injuries of Florian Verhaeghe or Romain Macurdy, Montpellier have appointed Elliot Stuke as a medical joker. Find out five things to know about MHR’s New English.

Montpellier gets an English accent again. After Zach Mercer, Henry Thomas or Curtis Langdon and, meanwhile Luke Cowan Dickey And Sam SimmondsThe following season, heralds found a new “rosebeef” land in their ranks. Eliot StukeThe second line, 29, 1.98m and 114kg, will bring his experience to the Montpellier pack and find Thomas and Mercer, who played with them under the colors of Bath (2016-2021).

The medical joker, he replaces Florian Verhey has been out for four months with a shoulder injury. His lease as a World Cup joker could be extended until the start of next season.

He is a medical joker in Bristol until December 28

Having sidelined pre-season with a serious knee injury, Elliott Stooke has not played a single minute for his Wasps club this season. In fact, when he recovered, the capital club went bankrupt and was forced to lay off all its players. In early December, after recovering from an injury, Stoke signed with Bristol To mitigate the injuries of second lines Ed Holmes and Joe Joyce. He played two Challenge Cup matches with his new club and one match against Harlequins in the league on 27 December, the last day of his contract. The next day, he set out for Montpellier for a new adventure.

Was voted Wasps’ player of the year last season

Elliott Stuke joins Wasps at the start of the 2021/2022 season after five full seasons at Bath. Despite a collectively disappointing season with a miserable ninth-place finish, the second-stringer scored 24 three tries and a total of 23 league matches played in the second row. 1712 minutes played. Fifth highest score in the championship. In the final league game, he fractured his fibula against Sale Sharks. An injury that didn’t stop him He was selected as the best player Wasps season.

A former teammate of Zach Mercer

Before defying himself and becoming a medical joker, Elliott stoke chained Premiership seasons, a championship he started ten years earlier. At 19, he played for Gloucester, with whom he won the Challenge Cup, until 2016, before moving to Bath for the next five seasons. Zach MercerMHR’s new star.

In the mythical enclosure of the “rec”, Stuq flourished and in March 2019 was also invited to the extended squad of the XV de la Rose, although no selection was obtained. In seasons and clubs, he disputes 259 professional competitions On the other side of the channel, incl 169 in the league.

Opponent of U20 World Champion, Yakupa Kamara

A member of the England U20 squad during the World Cup in France in 2013, the Worcester native has won a world title alongside Luke Cowan-Dickey, Henry Slade and Jack Nowell. Although he did not feature in the final against Wales, which won 23–15, he played in the pool against the Blues of Yakupa Kamara and Marco Dowlin (6–30).

Suspended in 2021 for out of control

In January 2021, in full lockdown in the UK, Elliot Stuke admitted Despite the obstacles, Gabriel Okre (Wasps’ centre) went to meet his team-mate Jonathan Joseph. On the way home, while drunk, Stuke has an accident and his breathalyzer test is positive.

His club handed him a heavy fine, as well as 15 hours of community service, after he was handed a three-match suspension by the Football Association of England (RFU).