Exeter DoR Rob Baxter was at a loss to explain the way his side imploded. “It felt like we were finally finding our feet,” he said.
“It was the game we needed, to try and cut loose and take the pressure off, but then we have our implosion at the wrong time.
“They’re going to be scarred by this, that’s why we need a confidence-boosting win to go our way.
"When you look at some of the stuff we are doing, and not managing to convert tries, it’s quite scary.”
Bristol DoR Pat Lam praised the fighting spirit of his Bears after their remarkable fightback.
He said: “We were down by 20 but we still h...