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Montpellier have acquired the services of Bulls and Springbok centre Wynand Olivier and Stormers utility back JP du Plessis for the 2013/14 season.

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Toulouse have signed All Blacks winger Hosea Gear from the Highlanders on a two-year contract. Gear will join as a 'medical joker' for injured French international Vincent Clerc in July.

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Northampton Saints have brought in Rotherham prop Gareth Denman for next season. The 22 year old has already played in the Premiership, having featured seven times for Leeds Carnegie in the 2010-11 season.

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Zebre have announced that they have signed full-back Giulio Toniolatti has signed for them from fellow Italian side Benetton Treviso, and there will be at least one more signing to come for next season.

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True to their word, Zebre have also announced the signature of Waikato Chiefs scrum-half Brendon Leonard who will join them on a two-year contract at the start of the 2013/14 season.

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Munster have revealed that Danny Barnes will leave the province and join Newcastle on a two-year deal at the start of the 2013/14 season.

[RuPi]

He was set to be the next big thing out of Munster and then has fallen away over the past 2 seasons, played most of this season for Dolphin.

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Seen a thing on Facebook that Munster could potentially be signing Stormers and Baby Boks winger, van den Heever, albeit as a second project player. Any truth in this?

[Russ]

Anyone who comes through at Munter is the next big thing.

Munter can do what they want in Ireland, we all dream of a team of projects! (You can pay projects minimum wage you know)

[ColinM]

Minimum wage down south is like 80k a year or something.

If you want 2 projects thats fine, but that means only 3 other NIQs. Could be a bit of a risk or could be great forward planning.

Or maybe we could sign him once IQd

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Tom Hicks will join Gloucester from Northampton for next season. The 21-year old lock played for the England U19 side, and has been a regular starter for the Saints' reserves. His only senior start was in the Saints' LV= Cup defeat against London Irish back in January 2011.

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Looks like Rene Ranger could be on his way to Montpellier. They could have a really good team next year, slightly worrying.

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Edinburgh have announced the signing of 25-year old back Jack Cuthbert on a two-year deal from Bath.

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Looks like Rene Ranger could be on his way to Montpellier. They could have a really good team next year, slightly worrying.

Montpellier Transfers In for next season
- Sitaleki Timani from Waratahs, current Wallabies international
- Jim Hamilton from Gloucester, current Scottish international
- Nicolas Mas from Perpignan, current French international
- Anthony Tuitavake from NEC Green Rockets, former All Black international
- Wynand Olivier from Blue Bulls, current Springbok international
- JP du Plessis from Stormers
- Thomas Bianchin from Racing Metro
- Mickael Ivaldi from Toulon
- Jonathan Pelissie from Grenoble
- Robins Tchale-Watchou from Perpignan, Cameroonian international
- Lucas Dupont from Grenoble
- Anthony Floch from Clermont

They join nineteen other internationally capped players in the Montpellier squad. I tell you, they will be one difficult team to beat next season.

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They join nineteen other internationally capped players in the Montpellier squad. I tell you, they will be one difficult team to beat next season.

I will take some comfort from remembering the Ospreys.