Exeter's seconds just too good for Saints as they march on towards title
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Exeter win for fifth time in a row since restart
It was 10 years to the day since Exeter made their Premiership bow and it is a measure of just how far they have come that their march towards a fifth straight final looks unstoppable. Again they fielded their second team but again they had too much for one of the most fancied teams in the league before the restart, Tom O’Flaherty coming up with a crucial try in the last 10 minutes.
In many ways it was not a vintage Exeter performance, they did not dominate possession nor territory in the manner they tend to, but in another it was – Rob Baxter has cultivated a side who know precisely how to win matches. He has them so well drilled that it seems not to matter whether it is the first-choice XV who ripped Worcester to shreds last time, or the reserves who downed Bristol on their own patch. This was Exeter’s fifth in a row since the restart and they already look nailed on for a return to the final. Continue reading...
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