Chiefs boss it up front to keep dream alive

■By NIGEL WALROND

AFTER a stuttering few weeks, normal service was resumed by Exeter Chiefs as they turned in one of their best displays of the season to keep alive their slim hopes of a Champions Cup quarter- final place.
Fielding a side showing nine changes, they looked a totally different animal to the team downed 27-19 on their own patch by the Cherry and Whites only six days before.
A devastating scrum, which produced seven penalties, a smoothly operating line-out, two tries from driving mauls and two from pick and goes – it was back to the blueprint that has made them su...

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