Alfie Barbeary has signed for Bath and will arrive at the West Country club next week, according to the Mail Online
He was one of the 167 players and staff made redundant after the Gallagher Premiership fell into administration on October 17.
The back-rower is the latest Wasp to find a new home in tough circumstances. Barbeary is a huge talent who was wanted by several leading French clubs as well as Saracens.
Alfie Barbeary facts:
- Born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, Barbeary grew up in Deddington, starting rugby practice at age eight with Banbury RUFC
- Barbeary was a centre through most of his youth career, naming Ma’a Nonu and Mathieu Bastareaud as his ultimate references
- The back-rower made his first start with the Coventry club in the Premiership on the 9 September 2020, scoring a hat trick against Leicester
Warren Gatland’s England XV to face Japan
Back-three:
- 15. Freddie Steward (Leicester Tigers)
- 14. Jack Nowell (Exeter Chiefs)
- 11. Joe Cokanasiga (Bath RFC)
DID YOU KNOW?
- In May 2022 Steward was named as the Rugby Players’ Association Player’s Young player of the year and England men’s player of the season
- In April 2017, Nowell was called up for the 2017 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand, becoming the first player to be selected from Exeter Chiefs by the Lions
- Cokanasiga was born in Fiji but before his third birthday, moved to England with his father, Ilaitia, who was in the British Army
Centres:
- 13. Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs)
- 12. Manu Tuilagi (Sale Sharks)
DID YOU KNOW?
- He was named Manusamoa, after the name of the Samoan national team, Manu Samoa, because his brother Freddie was selected for Samoa at the World Cup in 1991, the year Manu was born