{"id":26783,"date":"2026-03-09T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/james-harper-sale-sharks-tighthead-prop-to-leave-at-end-of-season\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:23:12","slug":"james-harper-sale-sharks-tighthead-prop-to-leave-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/james-harper-sale-sharks-tighthead-prop-to-leave-at-end-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harper: Sale Sharks tighthead prop to leave at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sale Sharks tighthead prop James Harper is to leave The Prem club at the end of the season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old has scored three tries in 72 appearances for the Sharks since making his debut against London Irish in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve enjoyed every minute of my time at Sale,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesharks.com\/2026\/03\/09\/harper-to-leave-sharks\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">he told the club website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> &#8220;It&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve been all of my professional career and I owe the club a lot<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club has felt like home and I&#8217;m going to miss everyone, but now feels like a good time to embrace a new challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c20zy1z4yejo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sale Sharks tighthead prop James Harper is to leave The Prem club at the end of the season. The 25-year-old has scored three tries in 72 appearances for the Sharks since making his debut against London Irish in March 2021. &#8220;I&#8217;ve enjoyed every minute of my time at Sale,&#8221; he told the club website., external [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26783","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\/26783","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=26783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26785,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26783\/revisions\/26785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}