Bath risk being fined after releasing Taulupe Faletau to play for Wales
• Club face disciplinary action over No8’s release this week
• Warren Gatland expected Faletau to face South Africa
Bath are likely to face disciplinary action after releasing Taulupe Faletau for Wales’s final autumn international against South Africa on Saturday, a Test that lies outside the official window.
Premiership Rugby has a policy that prevents clubs from releasing non-England players for these Tests and so are not governed by the regulation obliging them to make players available to national sides. It was waived last year as a goodwill gesture, when Wales’s extra international fell on an Anglo-Welsh weekend but Premiership Rugby has said the policy was being applied this weekend, when Bath are at the champions Exeter.
from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2Afutlt
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