We'll learn from the experience says Baxter

Rob Baxter admits his side’s slow start cost them the game, but was also a necessary learning curve after their second-half comeback at Twickenham.

Jack Yeandle and Jack Nowell went over for the Chiefs to trim a 23-3 lead for Saracens to just three points at the close of the second half .

“Is there anything that I can say or do or could we have had anything different before hand? I don’t think so. I think that we needed that first half-hour of a final, that’s the easiest way for me to wrap that up,” Baxter said.

“We needed that and what they felt like and the experiences of that to learn. I’ve said to the players that a lot of teams, especially when that happens in the first half-hour end up taking the whole game to learn from what they are doing and we didn’t.

“We ended the first-half pretty well and I think that gave us great confidence in what we wanted to do and I think that we just got better through the game.

“I think that we dropped into the danger of waiting for the next thing to happen or expecting the next thing to happen a little bit too much rather than just dealing with what was in front of us. I think that just took enough off us for a very good side, I think that when you play in finals the most important team to talk about is the winner."

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