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St Helens rugby league star Kyle Eastmond may be making the switch to the union code at the end of this season, but that does not mean that fans at new club Bath should start rejoicing quite yet.After months of speculation and rumour, Eastmond has finally decided that his future belongs in the 15-man game and will join a club that has a history of recruiting rugby league players such as Jason Robinson, Henry Paul and current England international Shontayne Hape.
Eastmond said: "I am very excited and privileged to be offered the opportunity to not only play rugby union, but to play at such a prestigious club with such a great history and forward ambition as Bath.
"This has been a long, hard and carefully thought out decision, with my family being an invaluable source of support, but I feel that the opportunity presented to me was too good to miss and I am thoroughly looking forward to the challenges ahead."
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However, Eastmond is likely to find the conversion a tough prospect to handle.
While fellow former league player Chris Ashton continues to thrive for the England union side, it is because his skills - pace, vision and talent on the wing - are directly transferable from one code to another.
That is not a criticism of Ashton; he is clearly a fine player, but the talents he employs in the current England set-up are talents that, in the main, he took with him from league and not skills he has had to learn.
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