PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

There at the start: Phil Dollman was Rob Baxter’s first recruit at Exeter Chiefs
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He rode out of Wales almost ten years ago with no reservations, heading west towards the one in Devon set aside for a new force in the English game. Phil Dollman may not have felt much like a new frontiersman upon arriving on the outskirts of Exeter at a place called Sandy Park, home of the Chiefs. He had been asked to meet the club’s newlyappointed director of rugby who outlined his vision to shake the Premiership hierarchy as it ha...