Rob Baxter’s plan of tying down the long-term futures of his frontline stars at Exeter Chiefs shows no sign of abating after another key figure today put pen to paper on a new deal.
The Chiefs head coach confirmed the Aviva Premiership club have taken up a clause to extend the contract of Welsh international Tomas Francis.
The York-born forward, who has won 14 caps for his country, including five in last autumn’s World Cup, has agreed a deal that will see him stay at Sandy Park until the end of the 2018-19 season.
Francis is the latest big name player to commit his...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter says his decision to agree contract extensions with two more of his first team squad is just reward for the efforts shown by the players themselves.
Forwards Thomas Waldrom and Harry Williams are the latest names to commit their futures to the Aviva Premiership club, coming hot on the heels of new deals for Don Armand, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Alec Hepburn, Mitch Lees, Jack Nowell and Henry Slade.
News that both men have penned terms, which will keep them at Sandy Park until the end of the 2017/18 season, is yet another welcome pre-season boost...
Rob Baxter has continued his busy summer of squad retention by adding three more Exeter Chiefs names to the list of players extending their stays at Sandy Park.
Fresh from helping the England Saxons to success on their summer tour of South Africa, Don Armand, Alec Hepburn and Mitch Lees have all put pen to paper on new deals with the ambitious Aviva Premiership club.
The trio are following the lead of team-mates Luke Cowan-Dickie, Jack Nowell and Henry Slade, all of whom have returned from England’s victorious summer tour to Australia and agreed new three-year deals with...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter says he and his team are relishing kicking off another Aviva Premiership season against Wasps.
Having faced the Midlanders four times last season - winning all three Premiership meetings and losing at the death in the European Champions Cup quarter-final - the Chiefs will kick-off their seventh year in the top fight with a trip to the Ricoh Arena on Sunday, September 4 (3pm).
A week later and the Devon club will have an equally stiff assignment on home soil, welcoming reigning Premiership and European champions Saracens to Sandy Park in...
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...
Exeter Chiefs have been dealt an untimely injury blow just days before they feature in their first-ever Aviva Premiership final against Saracens at Twickenham.
Head coach Rob Baxter confirmed today that No.8 Thomas Waldrom will not feature on Saturday after picking up a knee injury during last weekend’s semi-final win over Wasps.
The England international is set for 12 weeks on the sidelines after suffering damage to his medial ligament in the closing stages of Exeter’s 34-23 victory.
Waldrom’s absence will be felt by the Chiefs as the 33-year-old not only has...
Rob Baxter insists Exeter’s march to a first-ever Aviva Premiership final is no ‘flash in the pan’ – but instead the culmination of years of hard work behind the scenes at Sandy Park.
The Exeter head coach watched on with glowing pride as his side set-up a mouth-watering final assignment of the season against recently crowned European champions Saracens at Twickenham next Saturday (3pm).
Two penalty tries, along with touchdowns for Ian Whitten (pictured) and Dave Ewers, were the highlights on a memorable day for the Devon club, whose remaining points came courtesy of the...
London’s Calling for Exeter Chiefs after they booked themselves a first-ever appearance in the Aviva Premiership final.
Just six years after joining English rugby’s elite, Rob Baxter’s side are now just 80 minutes away from landing the biggest prize in the club’s history.
Standing in the way of history will be Saracens, the reigning European champions and the defending Premiership Kings, who themselves saw off the challenge of Leicester Tigers in the day’s other last four encounter.
The Chiefs, however, will head into the contest brimming with confidence having swot...
Exeter Chiefs may find themselves in unchartered waters when it comes to the Aviva Premiership play-offs, but head coach Rob Baxter wants his team to make the most of the opportunity afforded to them this weekend. Having finished the scheduled English season in second spot, accruing 15 wins from 22 games, the Chiefs have home advantage for tomorrow’s visit of Wasps to a packed out Sandy Park (3:15pm). It will mark the fourth meeting of the season between the two clubs, but it’s arguably the biggest yet with the prize on offer a trip to Twickenham a week later in the showpiece event of the...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has confirmed that both Byron McGuigan and Chrysander Botha are to leave the Aviva Premiership club at the end of the season.
Baxter confirmed the Namibian duo would be on their way soon, but said he did not know where they would be playing their rugby next season.
“They are not going to be at Exeter next year,” Baxter said. “At this stage I don’t know where they are going to be going next. I can’t really make any further comment at the moment other than that.”
