THERE was sympathy from Chris Boyd who said he “felt for Rob Baxter” with the Exeter director of rugby missing a galaxy of star players injured or returning from Lions duty.
But there were no excuses from Baxter who said: “We didn’t manage every area of the game as well as we should have done.
“It was certainly better than last week and we had the drive to fire into the game early on but the multiple mistakes added up in the end. They kill your momentum and give momentum to the opposition and we managed to make four or five mistakes in a row which led...