February 02, 2006

Paul Dearlove leaves for France

Posted by Editor on February 2, 2006 11:51 AM | 7 comments | Print | E-mail author

Paul Dearlove has left Glasgow to join Pau
Glasgow Warriors back row forward Paul Dearlove is today leaving to move to France to join premiership club Pau.

The 26-year-old player was released from his contract with The Warriors from the end of January.

Warriors head coach Hugh Campbell said: "Paul has been a great servant to Glasgow rugby. We wish him all the very best with his new club and hope his career continues to move forward."

Paul said: "I've really enjoyed my time playing with Glasgow and living in Scotland, especially the time I spent with the national squad, but when this chance arose I thought you've got to take these opportunities while you can and I'm looking forward to a new challenge."

Hugh added: "We're not looking for a replacement for Paul at the moment as we feel we've got good cover in the back row, even taking into account our injury problems. We of course have a number of good young players coming through like John Barclay and Steve Swindall plus players like Donnie Macfadyen, Andrew Wilson and John Beattie are all well on the road to recovery and should be back playing in the very near future. Plus, we have guys like James Eddie and Scott Forrest who also offer us good back row options."

Comments
Posted by hugh on February 2, 2006 12:07 PM | Reply to this comment

Best of luck Paul from Hawks

Posted by S153 on February 2, 2006 02:22 PM | Reply to this comment

Well what a surprise.......NOT!, come on Glasgow just tell the truth, don't leave the fans in the dark, useless on the park and not much better off it........why do we bovver??

Posted by Big Blue on February 2, 2006 05:24 PM | Reply to this comment

Let's not blame the Glasgow Rugby staff for the off the park problems. The finger should be pointed somewhere to the east of the country. Diane Murphy and Colin Marr have put in huge efforts in the last fortnight to keep Glasgow Rugby running. Two home games at two different venues in five days in two different competitions, at the same time they were packing up the office at Somerset Place and moving to their temporary home in Coatbridge.

Posted by vicki on February 2, 2006 07:11 PM | Reply to this comment

Sorry that Paul left without any chance for the fans to say cheerio - an announcement at Anniesland when he was there would have given fans the chance to give him a bit of a cheer...

Hope he has a great time playing with Pau.

Posted by Gordon on February 2, 2006 09:51 PM | Reply to this comment

Agreed, would have been good to have Paul's efforts acknowledged. Good player and a nice guy - hope it goes well for him in France.

Posted by hugues on February 3, 2006 11:57 AM | Reply to this comment

At least he'll enjoy skiing, and the sea isn't far for summer

Posted by markk on February 3, 2006 01:36 PM | Reply to this comment

Paul thanks for your efforts shame you never got a good shot at it thats Glasgow for you! I doubt he'll be the last to go. watch this space for further players to leave... money on a back!

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