{"id":14855,"date":"2025-05-23T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/george-turner-harlequins-sign-scotland-hooker-for-next-season\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:08:07","slug":"george-turner-harlequins-sign-scotland-hooker-for-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/george-turner-harlequins-sign-scotland-hooker-for-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"George Turner: Harlequins sign Scotland hooker for next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Harlequins have signed Scotland hooker George Turner for the 2025-26 season. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old made more than 100 appearances for Glasgow Warriors between 2017 and 2024, and was most recently at the Kobelco Steelers in Japan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has 45 caps for Scotland and featured in the 2019 and 2023 World Cups, scoring ten tries during his international career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really looking forward to this next step in my career,&#8221; Turner said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After some fantastic years in Scotland and a new experience in Japan, the opportunity to join this club came at the perfect time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an exciting challenge and one I&#8217;m ready for. I&#8217;m eager to get stuck into pre-season, meet the squad and contribute to what this team is building. The ambition here is clear, and I&#8217;m proud to be joining Harlequins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c6268y5ke3yo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harlequins have signed Scotland hooker George Turner for the 2025-26 season. The 32-year-old made more than 100 appearances for Glasgow Warriors between 2017 and 2024, and was most recently at the Kobelco Steelers in Japan. He has 45 caps for Scotland and featured in the 2019 and 2023 World Cups, scoring ten tries during his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14857,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855\/revisions\/14857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}