■By PAUL REES

Starter: Christ Tshiunza

EXETER are set on a third Premiership Rugby Cup success when they take on London Irish at the Gtech Community Stadium today having used the tournament as a springboard to success in the 2010s.
Exeter won what was then the LV=Cup in 2014, their fourth season in the top flight, and three years later they were the Premiership champions. They also lifted the Anglo-Welsh Cup, as it was then called, in 2018, two campaigns before their league and Champions Cup double.
“We have always used the competition as a development tool and it i...