• Chiefs continue to struggle in Europe
They have cracked this Premiership malarkey, but still Europe confounds Exeter. With this defeat, the Chiefs are all but out. It will feel just as painful to have been thus dismissed, within the walls of their own fortress, by Gloucester, familiar old Gloucester, against whom they know well the taste of victory.
“That’s the big question,” conceded Rob Baxter, Exeter’s director of rugby. “Whether we just aren’t getting our heads around the Champions Cup thing quite yet, whether we’ve convinced ourselves that things have to be so different, that it’s making us quite inefficient. That’s our beauty as a side. We win things because we are a bit of a machine. The cogs tend to run pretty smoothly. It certainly didn’t feel like that for much of today.”
Written by Michael Aylwin at Sandy Park
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/08/exeter-gloucester-champions-cup-match-report under the title “Ollie Thornley’s brilliance helps Gloucester humble Exeter Chiefs”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
