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Canadian international prop Jake Ilnicki is adding England to his swollen playing passport.

He’s signed on with the Aviva Premiership’s Northampton Saints through the end of the season.

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Once he steps on the field for the Saints’ first team, Ilnicki will be the first Canadian prop to play in England’s top flight since Jon Thiel turned out for the Sale Sharks in the 2000-01 season.

Fresh off the plane on Monday, he played for Northampton’s reserve team against the archrival Leicester Tigers.

“It was good! Certainly one way to get over the jet lag,” he messaged The Province afterwards.

In 2016 alone, he played for the Manawatu Turbos in New Zealand and the San Diego Breakers of PRO Rugby in the U.S.

In 2014 and ahead of the 2015 Rugby World Cup, he was with the New South Wales Country Eagles.

That rugby was taking him to all points of the globe was a “perk of the job,” he told The Province in August ahead of his move to New Zealand.