Fiji hooker Sam Matavesi leaves Northampton Saints after five seasons with the Premiership club.
Northampton Saints hooker Sam Matavesi has left after five years with the Premiership champions - to move across the English Channel.Matavesi has scored 13 tries in 89 Saints appearances since arriving from Championship club Cornish Pirates at the start of the 2019-20 season.
“We’re disappointed that Sam has decided to move overseas," said Northampton director of rugby Phil Dowson."But we have a fantastic stable of hookers at Saints in Curtis Langdon, Robbie Smith and Craig Wright. "Sam Matavesi has been a hugely popular and important player for Saints in his five seasons at the club."He joined the club in 2019 from Cornish Pirates and although he had played in the World Cup and had enjoyed a loan spell at Toulouse, not a great deal was known about him.
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