PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

There at the start: Phil Dollman was Rob Baxter’s first recruit at Exeter Chiefs
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He rode out of Wales almost ten years ago with no reservations, heading west towards the one in Devon set aside for a new force in the English game. Phil Dollman may not have felt much like a new frontiersman upon arriving on the outskirts of Exeter at a place called Sandy Park, home of the Chiefs. He had been asked to meet the club’s newlyappointed director of rugby who outlined his vision to shake the Premiership ...