By PAUL REES

When Rory O’Loughlin met Exeter’s director of rugby Rob Baxter earlier this year to discuss moving from Leinster to Devon, he was asked a direction question: why would you want to leave such a successful side?
The Ireland wing, who won four league winners medals and was on the bench in two Heineken Champions Cup finals, was not following a welltrodden path with few players making the journey to England in the last decade.
“I had been there a long time and you can get too comfortable,” said the 28- year old who won his Ireland cap against Japan in Shizuoka in 2017. “I wanted to...