Slade leads Chiefs on smash and grab raid

By MARK STEVENS

Toulon ................................ 18pts
Tries: Gigashvili 20, White 24
Conversion: Herve 21
Penalties: Herve 35, 38

Exeter ................................. 19pts
Tries: Skinner 16, Norey 60, Vermeulen 79
Conversion: Slade 62, 80
EXETER’S struggles on the road have been well documented over the past year, but the Chiefs produced the perfect ‘smash and grab’ to win in the south of France.
Up against three-times champions, Toulon, not many would have given much hope to Rob Baxter and his youthful charges.
But the never-say-die attitude of the Devonians shone through ...

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