By DAN GALLAN

London Irish ....18pts
Tries: Cornish 21, Stokes 40
Conversion: Jackson 40+3
Penalties: Jackson 28, 30

Exeter ................14pts
Tries: Woodburn 4, Schickerling 17
Conversions: Simmonds 5, 17
FOR the first 20 minutes of the contest it looked as if a rout was on the cards.
It wasn’t just that Olly Woodburn and Patrick Schickerling had scored close-range tries for the Exeter Chiefs, or that Joe Simmonds’ conversions saw his side race to a 14-0. It was the tempo that suggests only one team had any hope of winning, such was the dominance exerted by the visitors on...