Bath 14-23 Exeter Chiefs: Visitors gain Prem Cup revenge

Exeter Chiefs’ Director of Rugby Rob Baxter told BBC Radio Devon:

“Ultimately, when you look at the stats, we probably should’ve won and we’ve got there in the end, which is pleasing, but we’ve just got to find a way of unleashing.

“We are playing within our capabilities at the moment. We’ve got better players, we’re not seeing gain line busting carries from our forwards and that’s just pace on the ball, speed on the ball, clarity in what we’re doing.

“I’ve just got to work as hard as I can to break them in and it’s going to take a bit of time, but you know, we’ve taken a step forward today.

“There was definitely some rustiness there. We’ve got options increasing – things are starting to align in our game. Our scrum looks very aligned at the moment, at times our maul did, we just didn’t quite finish things off. #

“We battled away, made some mistakes, but it’s actually been quite a regulation win.”

Bath’s Director of Rugby Johann van Graan told BBC Radio Bristol:

“Disappointed that we lost the game, but that was some fight by this team, they fought to the end, literally until the last play of the game we were in it, but sometimes that’s the way sport goes.

“I thought the opportunities we had, we took – it was difficult conditions, specifically the wind and the ball being wet. We played against a very heavy pack and ultimately in the scrum they had too much for us in the end.

“That’s the things we want our group to go through, I’d much rather this then send out the rest of our squad in the Prem Cup, we got exactly what we wanted. It was a squad effort.”