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Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter is predicting a bright future ahead for three of the club’s rising stars after they today agreed new deals with the Aviva Premiership club.

With Baxter busy sorting out new contracts for a number of his current first-team squad, the news that England Under-20s internationals Jack Nowell, Henry Slade and Sam Hill have all agreed two-year contracts to stay at Sandy Park is yet another welcome boost to the Exeter leader.

The talented trio, all of whom are part of the club’s highly successful Academy system, are just the latest in a line of...

Christmas has certainly come early for supporters of the Exeter Chiefs after it was confirmed two more of their senior stars have agreed new contracts with the Aviva Premiership.

Just days after full-back Luke Arscott committed his immediate future to the Sandy Park outfit, prop Brett Sturgess and fly-half Gareth Steenson have followed suit by agreeing similar two-year deals. The announcement is yet another welcome boost for head coach Rob Baxter, who has made no secret of his desire to tie down the futures of a number of his frontline stars. Speaking after his side's narrow loss...

Exeter City's trip to Plainmoor to play Torquay United, scheduled for this afternoon, has been postponed . The Plainmoor pitch is currently waterlogged, and with the weather forecast not looking positive for the next few hours, the decision has been taken to rearrange the fixture. Thanks go to everyone who did their utmost to make the pitch playable. Unfortunately on this occasion the conditions have been too poor to persist with.

Exeter Chiefs may have notched up an impressive seven-game winning streak, but club captain Tom Hayes insists nobody inside the Sandy Park is getting carried away with their impressive form. Tomorrow, the Chiefs hit the halfway point in this season's Aviva Premiership season with a testing trip to Gloucester, who themselves will be looking to claim an early Christmas present at Kingsholm (3pm). However, Rob Baxter's Chiefs will travel in confident mood, having not only recorded back-to-back Heineken Cup wins over Scarlets in the past fortnight, but safe in the knowledge that they know how...