Club Rugby

Chiefs streak home after first half blitz

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The Rugby Paper Team
1 April 2018

By TOM BRADSHAW

Champions: Exeter celebrate with the trophy
PICTURES: Getty Images

EXETER have left Bath bodies strewn across the West Country this season – at Sandy Park, at the Recreation Ground, and now in Gloucester too.
For years after their promotion to the Premiership, Bath were something of a bogey team for the Devon side. No longer.
The Chiefs, appearing in their fourth successive Anglo-Welsh Cup final, secured their first piece of silverware of the season with some ease, guided by the inexperienced but authoritative half-back pairing of Stuart Townsend and Joe Simmond...

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