- Northampton 19-22 Exeter
- Exeter win for fifth time in a row since restart
Ten 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 more fancied sides 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. He has them so well drilled it seems not to matter whether it is the first-choice XV who ripped Worcester to shreds last time out, or the reserves who downed Bristol on their own patch.
Written by Gerard Meagher at Franklin’s Gardens
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