{"id":1176565,"date":"2026-08-30T03:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1176565\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T03:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:13:17","slug":"bristol-bring-in-wells-on-short-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1176565\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol bring in Wells on short deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL Bears have signed former Leicester Tigers lock Harry Wells on a short-term deal.<br \/>The 32-year-old, who can operate across the second row and back row, made 236 appearances for Leicester. He left the club during the summer and signed for National Two East side Oundle, but will now join the Bears on a three-month deal.<br \/>Wells, who won one England cap against Canada in 2021, said: \u201cI remain committed to Oundle and plan to return to the club following the conclusion of my time with the Bears.\u201d<br \/>Wells spent more than a decade with the Tigers and was part of the side th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISTOL Bears have signed former Leicester Tigers lock Harry Wells on a short-term deal.The 32-year-old, who can operate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1176566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,21571,748,943,393,4884,18673,20795,32687,6875,11653,4151,3948,16,15],"class_list":["post-1176565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-bristol","tag-bristol-bears","tag-britain","tag-canada","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-leicester","tag-leicester-tigers","tag-pat-lam","tag-premiership","tag-premium","tag-rugby","tag-tigers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117182280687484537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}