• Club face disciplinary action over No8’s release this week
• Warren Gatland expected Faletau to face South AfricaBath 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 external 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 produce 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, or when Bath are at the champions Exeter.
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Source: guardian.co.uk