Rob Baxter has been forced to make a late change to his Exeter Chiefs starting XV for today’s Aviva Premiership clash with Harlequins at Sandy Park (3pm).
Lock Mitch Lees has been forced to pull out of the game through illness, so it means Damian Welch (pictured) is promoted from the bench to partner Geoff Parling in the second row. Ollie Atkins is added to the bench for his first outing of the season with the first team. Otherwise the Chiefs name the same side as that was announced on Friday lunchtime 15 Lachie Turner 14 Olly Woodburn 13 Ollie Devoto 12 Henry Slade 11 Ian Whitten...
Rob Baxter acknowledges the pressure is on his Exeter Chiefs side, but insists it’s the same every week in the Aviva Premiership.
After back-to-back losses against Wasps and Saracens, Baxter’s men find themselves rooted to the foot of the table with just a solitary point to their name.
Tomorrow, however, they have the chance to get their season finally up and running when they welcome Harlequins to Sandy Park (3pm).
Head coach Baxter knows the Londoners will pose another creditable threat to his team, but he wants his troops to rise in battle and replicate the kind...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has confirmed Phil Dollman will be sidelined for a number of weeks after it was revealed he broke his hand in last weekend’s Aviva Premiership clash with Saracens.
The 31-year-old full-back sustained the injury during the opening quarter of the game played at Sandy Park.
“The initial prognosis is that he’s going to be out for a little while – he may well require an operation,” said Baxter. “If he does he’ll have that very shortly, and then you’re talking about a six to eight week recovery period.”
Don Armand insists he and his Exeter Chiefs team-mates owe it to themselves and the club’s supporters to bounce back with a big home display against Harlequins in the Aviva Premiership this Saturday (3pm).
After two rounds of battle, Rob Baxter’s side have yet to post a league victory – having gone down to Wasps (25-20) on the opening day, and then champions Saracens (34-13) at Sandy Park on Sunday.
Back-row star Armand admits the table does not make for pretty reading, but insists there have been positives to take from both performances and he hopes another week on the...
The only way is up for Exeter Chiefs after they slipped to a second successive Aviva Premiership defeat of the season.
After two rounds of league battle, Rob Baxter’s side are still searching for their first win of the season after reigning English and Europeans champions Saracens stormed to a five-try victory at Sandy Park.
In a dominant display from the Londoners, first half tries from Alex Lozowski and Sean Maitland set the tone, before Maitland struck for a second time, alongside further scores from Jackson Wray and Ben Spencer.
Gareth Steenson says a return to home comforts can help provide the perfect lift he and his Exeter Chiefs team-mates need after losing to Wasps in their seasonal opener at Wasps at the weekend.
Rob Baxter’s side will kick-off their home campaign this Sunday with a testing engagement against reigning English and European champions Saracens at Sandy Park (3pm).
With just one defeat on home soil in 20 months – that incidentally against Saracens last February – Steenson admits delivering on home turf is a key incentive.
“It’s a good test to put things right,” said the...
Exeter City Football Club and Exeter Chiefs have united to give their support to plans for a major new leisure complex in the city centre.
St Sidwell’s Point, an environmentally-friendly and sustainable building at the heart of the new Grecian Quarter, has been given a ringing endorsement by both clubs.
The cutting edge development, which will be built at the heart of the redeveloped bus station site, will be a world class leisure attraction with three pools, a health suite and spa, soft play area and 150 station fitness suite.
In what is the first meeting between these two Premiership prize-fighters, it was Wasps who delivered the first telling blow of the new season against the Exeter Chiefs.
Undone in all three top flights meetings by the Chiefs last season, Dai Young’s side enacted a spot of revenge in this seasonal opener as a late flurry of points drove them down victory lane.
Jimmy Gopperth – the hero in last season’s European Champions Cup quarter-final between the two clubs – again proved the match winner, converting Tommy Taylor’s late try, as well as a penalty to finish with a personal...
Rob Baxter insists his Exeter Chiefs side are in “good nick” ahead of their seasonal opener against Wasps in the Aviva Premiership on Sunday (3pm).
Runners-up last season, the Chiefs head for a testing away-day at the Ricoh Arena looking to lay down a solid foundation from which to attack the 2016/17 season.
An unbeaten pre-season programme – which saw the Devon club record victories over Guinness Pro12 sides Scarlets, Ulster and Newport-Gwent Dragons – have given a solid enough base from which to build, but Baxter knows the hard work starts this weekend, up against a...
Exeter Chiefs star Don Armand admits expectation levels have rightly changed across the board as he and his team-mates prepare to kick-off a new Aviva Premiership season against Wasps this Sunday (3pm).
No longer seen as English rugby’s ‘New Kids on the Block’ – Rob Baxter’s side underlined their growing emergence within the game last season, advancing to the last eight of the European Champions Cup for the first time, as well as narrowly missing out on a first-ever Premiership title to Saracens.
The development of Devon’s finest has been talked about far and wide, but much...
