Exiles have their day in the sun at long last

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Exeter ................21pts
Tries: Witty 21, Hogg 23, Nowell 66
Conversions: J Simmonds 22, 24; Slade 67

London Irish ....33pts
Tries: Creevy 3, Rona 9, Van Rensburg 45, Loader 49, Hassell-Collins 62
Conversions: Jackson 4, 10, 50, 63
THE new dawn at London Irish, more of an aspiration than a reality in recent years, finally broke in full glorious technicolour at Sandy Park yesterday with one of their best wins in decades.
In the final analysis the Exiles played a fully booted and suited Exeter off the park, defended tenaciously and cleverly when under the pu...

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