By MARK STEVENS

STU Townsend says he’s ready to put the ‘dark times’ behind him and help ignite a new charge with the Exeter Chiefs this season.
In what has so far been a miserable campaign to date for the Devon club, they have lost all six of their Gallagher Premiership fixtures, Townsend believes there is now light at the end of the tunnel and that fortunes will soon turn after some deep soul-searching within the club.
Last weekend’s 68-7 success over the Cornish Pirates in the opening round of the Premiership Rugby Cup was the first step in the right d...