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Harlequins No 8 Nick Easter has announced his retirement from rugby
union to take up a full-time coaching role with the club.
The former England international, with 54 caps, made a
club-record 281 appearances for Quins but will now be in charge of
defence at the club.Explaining his decision, the 38-year-old said he has
recently struggled to get motivated for matches and believed the club
deserves a player who can commit totally to playing. He told Sky
Sports News HQ: Around January or February time, I struggled with the
mental motivation a little bit.Ive never had a problem getting up for
games. Ive always wanted to win and give everything but that was only
happening every two or three games from January or February onward.
Nick Easter played 54
times in a stalwart England career I thought it
might be the toll of the season so I thought Id sit on it over the
summer, have five weeks off and turn up for pre-season. Well the
prowlers are out, the bags are out, the running canes are out, the
stopwatches are out, and I realised actually I havent changed my
mind.The coaching career definitely helped make the decision. I was
contracted to play this season, the offer was player-coach, taking part
in the defensive aspect, which is a huge area and would have been a
full-time schedule.
A look
back at Easters career as he retires from rugby with Harlequins and
England I would have had to fit my
playing in and around that and I just didnt think it would be fair on
myself nor the boys, not produce the sort of quality I feel Ive been
doing for the last few years.Easter joined Harlequins from Orrell in
2004, and won the first of his 54 England caps in 2007.
Nick Easter, Forwards coach Graham
Rowntree, the New Harlequins Director of Rugby John Kingston, Head coach
Mark Mapletoft and Skills coach Collin Osborne
During his fourth Test match that he scored a record four tries, against
Wales in the 62-5 victory at Twickenham Stadium.He was part of the
squad which reached the World Cup final in 2007, and won the Six Nations
title in 2011.He played a huge role in helping Harlequins win their
first Premiership title, in May 2012.In 2015, after a four-year absence
from the international scene, he was called into Stuart Lancasters squad
for the Six Nations and became Englands oldest try scorer in the
victory over Italy.He was then re-called into Englands World Cup squad
as an injury replacement for Billy Vunipola and was named man of the
match after scoring three tries against Uruguay in Englands final Pool
game.
Easter (centre)
played 281 times for Harlequins Kingston said:
Nick has been an unbelievable servant to the Harlequins team for over a
decade.He has been at the very heartbeat of all the successes the side
has achieved over this period.Nick has a fantastic rugby brain and it is
for this reason I offered him the opportunity to join the new look
coaching team at the club. Both Nick and I have agreed it is in the best
interests of Quins that he focuses on his coaching exclusively from
now.
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"This isnt really the week you want to lose Chris Greaves," fellow
lineman Glenn January said Wednesday after practice.
Greaves is expected to miss several weeks after suffering a knee injury
in last weeks 36-28 win over the Ottawa Redblacks.ST. PETERSBURG � To
say Sergio Santos is struggling would be an understatement. To suggest a
mutual parting of the ways between the Blue Jays and their former
closer after two and a half injury-interrupted seasons would be right on
the mark.
After the 31-year-old laboured through the seventh of Saturdays 10-3
loss to the Rays, an inning in which he gave up two runs on three hits
and two walks to spike his season ERA to 7.78, Santos suggested hes
having difficulty getting into a groove due a lack of consistent game
action.
"Its just kind of, to get that slider was a little tough today," said
Santos. "I dont know if it has to do with not getting as much work in
the last couple of weeks as I would have liked but thats part of the
game as well."
Santos time in Toronto has been a grind. Acquired from the White Sox
for pitcher Nestor Molina before the 2012 season, he was supposed to be
the Blue Jays closer for years to come.
There was reason to believe. Santos had authored a 30-save campaign for
Chicago in 2011, his second season in the big leagues after converting
to pitcher from shortstop, the position he played when the Jays had him
in their system in the mid-2000s.
However, a shoulder injury in April, 2012, turned out to be season
ending when it required surgery.
Two weeks into the 2013 season, Santos went down with a triceps strain
and a month later underwent a procedure to clean bone spurs out of his
elbow. Santos was terrific upon his return in the final two months of
the year, making 24 of his 29 appearances and allowing earned runs in
only three of them.
This year, Santos went to the disabled list after a May 9 appearance
with a forearm strain. He returned on June 17 and after six-straight
scoreless appearances (5 1/3 innings), hes been hit hard in his last
four outings, allowing five earned runs in just 2 1/3 innings.
He insisted its not a matter of confidence.
"Not so much that," said Santos. "Once you get in the flow of the game
and you get there consistently its a lot easier to kind of have those
pitches. When you dont its just tough because you can throw as many flat
grounds and bullpens as you want but theres nothing like a game
situation."
Santos wants the ball more and feels thats the only way hell harness a
slider that, when Santos is commanding the pitch, is as nasty as any in
the game.
On the other hand, manager John Gibbons cant be blamed for using Santos
in mop up duty. Until a relief pitcher proves he can perform in
relatively non-pressure situations, hes unlikely to be handed the ball
with the game on the line.
Santos did rack up five saves to start the year when Casey Janssen was
down with an oblique strain but he blew his next three, including on
that frigid night in Minneapolis when the bullpen allowed six runs on
just one hit, an otherworldly eight walks and three wild pitches in the
eighth inning of a loss to the Twins.
Santos hasnt been the same since.
Its believed general manager Alex Anthopoulos is facing the same
budgetary pressures he did during the quiet offseason.
There is a need to upgrade the bullpen. There is a need to acquire an
infielder. While the club has been pleasantly surprised by the
performance of its starting corps, there isnt a team in baseball that
wouldnt upgrade its rotation if presented with the right deal.
Santos makes $3.75-million, the final guaranteed year of a deal that
includes three consecutive cllub options ($6-million in 2014; $8-million
in 2015; $8.dddddddddddd75-million in 2016).
Given the strange nature of relievers, how they can go from
underachievers to consistent performers and vice versa in the blink of
an eye, Santos could be of use to another team with playoff aspirations.
He has the stuff.
He also has a salary that, if moved, would help to facilitate a dollar
in-dollar out deal.
Anthopoulos talks often about getting "creative" in trade talks.
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McGowan explains Friday meltdown
Dustin McGowan has generally been very good since returning to the Blue
Jays bullpen on May 18.
In 22 relief appearances, the 32-year-old has posted an ERA of 2.86 and
an opponents OPS of .605. Hes allowed earned runs in only three
appearances.
Yet the perception of McGowan is changing, somewhat, because his two
biggest meltdowns have happened recently and theyve both been ugly.
On June 28 against the White Sox, it took McGowan one pitch to erase
what had been 6 2/3 innings of scoreless work by Marcus Stroman. He hung
a slider to Dayan Viciedo, who hit a three-run home run to turn a 2-0
Jays lead into a 3-2 deficit, from which Toronto wouldnt recover.
Fast forward to Friday night, with four scoreless appearances (four
innings) in between, McGowan entered the game in the seventh inning with
a 5-2 lead.
He walked Evan Longoria on a full count. He walked James Loney on five
pitches. That brought up right-handed hitting Sean Rodriguez, who on the
third pitch in a 1-1 count slammed a game-tying home run. Just like the
pitch to Viciedo, it was a cement-mixer slider.
"It seems to be my nemesis right now, the hanging slider," said McGowan.
"Ive got to fix that."
In advance of the home run, McGowan was up with his fastball and at
other times wide. He was bouncing his slider but the Rays wouldnt offer.
He knew in the bullpen he was in for a battle.
"Getting loose I was a little erratic, too" said McGowan. "For me,
sometimes, its different coming from the pen to the mound, usually you
can lock in on a hitter. Its just one of those games where I couldnt
find anything."
While McGowan admitted the sting of failure more than once in a brief
period can affect confidence, he vowed the next time a crucial situation
called for a slider, hell throw it.
It doesnt hurt the psyche when the team bounces back and wins, as the
Jays did with three runs in the ninth for an 8-5 final score.
"That made it a lot better," said McGowan. "If we had lost the game it
would have been really hard on me but we came back and won the game, the
guys battled back and that made it a lot easier."
Kawasaki okay
Munenori Kawasaki wasnt in Saturdays starting lineup after feeling
hamstring tightness the night before.
Approached by TSN.ca, Kawasaki announced his availability.
"No problem," said Kawasaki. "I play today."
Kawasakis hit .289 in 23 games since rejoining the club on June 17. Hes
proven an adequate defender at second base.
"Just cramps," said Kawasaki. "Just cramps. I play today, no problem."
Reimold not okay
Nolan Reimold also was injured in Friday nights game and the news on the
recently acquired outfielder isnt as good.
An MRI revealed a left calf strain. Reimold was placed on the 15-day
disabled list.
Anthony Gose was recalled to take Reimolds place.
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