PLYMOUTH Albion boss Graham Dawe admits he would consider signing dual registered players — providing the circumstances were right.

Albion's chairman of rugby has never been a big fan of the RFU-backed scheme which allows an England National Academy player to be registered for both a Premiership club and a Championship or National League side.

In the last couple of years Premiership clubs have tended to work with just a handful of Championship sides like Nottingham, Moseley and Bedford.

However, next season the rules on dual registered players are going to be tightened and Championship sides will be limited in the numbers they can field.

It means Premiership teams are likely to be approaching different Championship sides to give their young players game-time.

Exeter are currently looking to dual register Ivybridge Community College prospects Dave Ewers and Addison Lockley, who have just signed for the newly-promoted Premiership club.

Dawe has always preferred to produce his own talent, but with finances tight at Brickfields, the Albion boss is not ruling out the idea of signing a dual registered player.

"If the situation was right then yes we would consider it," said Dawe. "So it is a possibility, but we would only do it if it was appropriate."

Meanwhile, Albion prop Danny Porte has joined the coaching staff of newly-promoted National South West Three side Newton Abbot.

Porte, who turns 32 this month, is taking up a role as forwards player-coach with the Devon All Whites after leaving Brickfields.

The former Exeter and Launceton player struggled with a neck injury last season, which limited him to six league starts and eight replacement appearances — his last coming at the start of February.

Porte, who got married this month, will combine his new role with teaching at Ivybridge Community College.

He said: "I have been thinking for some time now about the prospect of going into club coaching, but whilst still playing this was difficult to do. I have heard a lot of positive things about Newton Abbot so when (director of coaching) Phil (Burford) presented me with this opportunity it was the ideal way of continuing my playing career at a good level while coaching at a forward thinking and ambitious club."

Former Albion player Nigel Cane, however, has stood down from Newton Abbot's coaching set-up.