Marines help O’Loughlin get in shape for Exeter

By PAUL REES

When Rory O’Loughlin met Exeter’s director of rugby Rob Baxter earlier this year to discuss moving from Leinster to Devon, he was asked a direction question: why would you want to leave such a successful side?
The Ireland wing, who won four league winners medals and was on the bench in two Heineken Champions Cup finals, was not following a welltrodden path with few players making the journey to England in the last decade.
“I had been there a long time and you can get too comfortable,” said the 28- year old who won his Ireland cap against Japan in Shizuoka in 2017. “I wanted t...

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