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Worcester Warriors possess signed forward Joe Batley from Bristol Bears on a one-year contract.
The 23-year-passe 6ft 6ins lock, who could play in the help row, will doubtless be joining his fourth Premiership club.
Having started with Gloucester, ahead of bright to Bristol in 2017, the ex-England Below-20 world has beenwith Leicester on mortgage this season.
Worcester had already signed Wasps cruise-half of Billy Searle andExeter relief-row forward Matt Kvesicfor 2020-21.
Hampshire-born Batley has battled relief from a most cancers awe to keep his occupation in rugby.
He needed to suffer six months of chemotherapy remedy after beingidentified with stage two Hodgkin’s Lymphomaall the procedure thru Bristol’s Championship-winning marketing campaign in 2017-18.
Batley will prepare three of the Bristol backroom workers up the M5 ahead of next season, with forwards coach Jonathan Thomas, scrum and assistant forwards coach Designate Irish and academy manager Mike Hall having also been recruited from Bristol.
“I the truth is possess enjoyed working with Jonathan Thomas and Designate Irish over the final three years at Bristol,” said Batley. “The probability to proceed working with them modified into as soon as something that the truth is angry me. I revel in their teaching ethos and how they desire the recreation to be performed.”
Warriors director of rugby Alan Solomons said: “He’s a substantial, athletic, young English lock, who has worked with every JT and Iro that will doubtless be of big relief. He can be a first-class bloke.”
Warriors were 10th in the Premiership, however safe from any relegation fears resulting from Saracens’ dying, when the season modified into as soon as suspended in mid-March.