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Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Exeter Chiefs deducted two points

 Exeter Chiefs have been deducted two points and fined £5000 for naming three overseas players in the squad for their match at Leeds Carnegie.


Nemani Nadolo was mistakenly included in the 27-22 defeat at Headingley alongside Hoani Tui and Ignacio Mieres on 3 April.


The decision was announced at a Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing.


Despite the deduction, Exeter stay ninth in the Premiership where they now have 39 points.


Fijian-born Nadolo, 23, registered for the Devon club on an Australian passport when he joined from Bourgoin in January.


Under the RFU's rules, Premiership clubs' match-day squads can only have two players from outside of Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands - a limit they exceeded with the inclusion of Nadolo alongside Tui (New Zealand) and Mieres (Argentina).


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