• Club wary of Allianz Park’s artificial pitch given player’s chronic knee issue
• England wing in Dubai as team-mates prepare for top-of-the-table clashExeter’s grand slam-winning wing Jack Nowell will miss the top-of-the-table Premiership fixture at Saracens on Saturday because his club still feel it is too risky to play him on artificial pitches. The England three-quarter has had a long-standing knee issue and is enjoying a atomize in Dubai rather than preparing for the game at Allianz Park.
Nowell also sits out away matches at Newcastle for the same reason,although the Exeter head coach, Rob Baxter, and says he would probably have been rested besides in the wake of England’s intense Six Nations campaign.
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Source: theguardian.com