Chiefs’ director of rugby knows his club’s strident criticism of Sarries’ salary cap breach adds spice to Premiership clash
Rob Baxter, Exeter’s director of rugby, has welcomed Premiership Rugby’s review of the salary cap in the wake of Saracens’ unprecedented punishment, urging the league’s hierarchy to “decide what they want from the competition”.
Exeter were left furious last month when Saracens were found guilty of repeatedly breaching the cap, handed a £5.36m fine and docked 35 points. Exeter lost the 2018 and 2019 Premiership finals to Saracens and Baxter has said those titles were won “unfairly”. The Exeter chairman, Tony Rowe, has been similarly incensed, threatening legal action and calling for Saracens to be relegated. “I don’t think the penalty is severe enough,” he said last month. “In America, if you’re in breach of the salary cap, you get thrown out completely.”