3 Big-Money Signings Who Flopped at Exeter Chiefs

Signed for the club 11th Jan 2011 but was registered under his Aussie passport and therefore cost the club 2 points and £5000 for fielding too many overseas players.

He was then convicted of drink driving, banned from the road for 18 months, and released by the club in May 2011. He failed to score a single try in his four appearances for the Chiefs. His career has done nothing but rise ever since so that’s nice.

The Fijian magician came down to Devon from Glasgow with high expectations. However, off-the-field problems meant the scrum-half/wing only ever played for Exeter Braves, once in December 2016, without graduating to the first team.

The Wales international arrived at Sandy Park as a marquee signing back in 2009. It was a difficult time for the flanker after being released by Ospreys with his one season in National League One proving to be a tough campaign, scoring just one try in 18 appearances before he joined Scarlets for the next season.