Thirteen Barbarians players whose breaches of COVID-19 protocols led to the cancellation of a non-cap match against England in October have been handed bans by the Rugby Football Union, the governing body said on Tuesday.
The breaches arose when players left their hotel rooms to visit pubs and restaurants without the permission of organisers.
All 13 players have accepted the charges.
"The total charges across 13 players are 85 weeks of match bans; 44 weeks suspended subject to conditions being met and 41 weeks of bans to be taken concurrently," the RFU said in a statement.
"The sanctions reflect the seriousness of the charges which include behaving in a way that ignored what the public at large and the Rugby community were complying with and deliberately compromising an investigation being carried out by the RFU."
Alex Lewington, Fergus McFadden, Juan Pablo Socino, Chris Robshaw, Richard Wigglesworth and Jackson Wray were handed five-week bans for leaving the team's biosecure bubble twice, with three suspended as long as they do not commit further off-field offences in the next year and complete unpaid community service.
They received an additional two-week ban for giving a false account of events during the investigation.
The three players who left the bubble only once, Calum Clark, Sean Maitland and Tim Swinson, were handed four-week bans, three of which are suspended, with an additional two-week ban for misleading the investigation.
Joel Kpoku, Manu Vunipola and Tom de Glanville were given three-week suspensions, while Simon Kerrod received a two-week ban.
(Reporting by Arvind Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris and Toby Davis)
