By ROGER PANTING

Exeter ................................ 24pts
Tries: Frost 24, Nowell 57, Penalty 62, S Simmonds 72
Conversions: Skinner 57

Newcastle...........................5pts
Tries: Carreras 21
Earlier in the week, Exeter’s director of rugby, Rob Baxter, addressed falling attendances at Sandy Park this season and anyone who witnessed this contest will probably have their own view.
Sure enough the conditions at Sandy Park were miserable. High on a hill, it’s a difficult place to play at the best of times but the paying public deserved better than this spectacle.
The first half, ...