Aviva Premiership
Sale sign Samoan flanker Ioane
ESPN Staff
January 7, 2015
TJ Ioane will bolster their back-row options © Getty Images
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Sale have brought in Samoan flanker TJ Ioane until the end of the season.

Ioane, who played for the Highlanders last season, will bolster their back-row resources for the second-half of the campaign and Sale coach Steve Diamond was delighted with the capture. He said: "TJ is a great signing for us and I am sure that he will become a very valuable member of our squad and be very popular with our fans."

Ioane, who has two Samoa caps, was also delighted with the new challenge. "I'm looking forward to getting an opportunity to play for Sale," he said. "I'll have to quickly learn the calls and team pattern first with the season being halfway through and then hopefully I can be included in the matchday 23 squad.

"Hopefully, Sale will see that I tackle hard and run hard and that I can bring some enthusiasm and aggression to the forwards and the defence."

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