By JON NEWCOMBE

HOLD my beer, Nottingham have signed a Swedish prop called Ale.
Ale Loman, 24, is believed to be the first player from the Scandinavian country to join a Championship club.
Nottingham picked him up right on their doorstep, thanks to their strong ties with the local student rugby scene.
The tighthead, who can also play loosehead, came over to the UK to do an MSc in machine learning and computer science at the University of Nottingham but furthering his rugby career was a factor behind the move, too.
“The last few years I feel I have reached the end of how fa...