Luke Cowan-Dickie led the way as Exeter Chiefs recorded their first Aviva Premiership victory of the season against visiting Harlequins.
Having suffered back-to-back defeats at the hands of Wasps and defending champions Saracens, Rob Baxter’s side rediscovered their winning formula at the third time of asking.
Cornishman Cowan-Dickie (pictured) was the main headliner grabber, claiming a hat-trick of tries and producing an outstanding display that watching England forwards coach, Neal Hatley, will have duly noted with plenty of interest.
Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale highlighted the positive aspects of his side's play, despite losing 2-0 to Plymouth Argyle.
The Devon derby at St James Park saw City go down to first half goals from Graham Carey and Paul-Arnold Garita, in match where the Grecians hit the post through Lee Holmes and Robbie Simpson saw a first half header fly just over the crossbar.
Despite City's best efforts through the likes of Holmes, who returned from injury, as well as the impressive Jack Stacey at right back, they weren't able to break a resolute Pilgrims defence.
Rob Baxter has been forced to make a late change to his Exeter Chiefs starting XV for today’s Aviva Premiership clash with Harlequins at Sandy Park (3pm).
Lock Mitch Lees has been forced to pull out of the game through illness, so it means Damian Welch (pictured) is promoted from the bench to partner Geoff Parling in the second row. Ollie Atkins is added to the bench for his first outing of the season with the first team. Otherwise the Chiefs name the same side as that was announced on Friday lunchtime 15 Lachie Turner 14 Olly Woodburn 13 Ollie Devoto 12 Henry Slade 11 Ian Whitten...
Exeter will be missing two of its most successful teams in this year’s finals of the annual Gasket Guy British Skittles Championships taking place Saturday (Sept 17).
Mixed team champions Two Tribes will not be there to defend their British title after they failed to qualify in the preliminary rounds of the competition. They lost three of their four matches against the High Flyers of Totnes and One Step Beyond from Weymouth and so ruled themselves out of a never-before-achieved hat trick in the mixed competition.
In the men’s competition however, Two Tribes men’s team from...
Former professional footballer turned campaigner Clarke Carlisle met experts who help to keep people in the South West safe and well at an event held to discuss how they can tackle male suicide and mental health problems.
It is hoped that the event will lead to better mental health support for men in the future.
The meeting, organised by University of Exeter historian Dr Ali Haggett, Active Devon and Exeter City Football in the Community, was designed to encourage charities and others who currently help men to work more closely together and discuss what works. They hope...
There are just two weeks left to have your say on Devon County Council’s proposals for improvements to the A30 between Honiton and Devonshire Inn.
People are being reminded that the deadline for responses to the consultation is Friday 30 September.
Devon County Council is promoting an improvement to A30/A303 Honiton to Ilminster section of the corridor to London. As a first phase of improvement, the Council is proposing to identify a Preferred Route for 8km (5 miles) between Honiton and Devonshire Inn.
The authority has put forward three potential route options to...
The Taste of the Teign food and drink festival (19-25 September) is launching with a sprat to catch a mackerel this coming Monday (19th September) when twenty tonnes of freshly caught sprats will be landed at Teignmouth’s New Fish Quay ready to be sizzled and sampled by the public.
Commencing at 4.30pm, the finest of these silver fish will be accompanied by tastes of the week to come: sausages from Westaways, internationally renowned cheese straws from Luders’ Patisserie, award winning elderflower cordial from Shute Fruit and Produce, and wine from Old Walls Vineyard. Followed by a...
Rob Baxter acknowledges the pressure is on his Exeter Chiefs side, but insists it’s the same every week in the Aviva Premiership.
After back-to-back losses against Wasps and Saracens, Baxter’s men find themselves rooted to the foot of the table with just a solitary point to their name.
Tomorrow, however, they have the chance to get their season finally up and running when they welcome Harlequins to Sandy Park (3pm).
Head coach Baxter knows the Londoners will pose another creditable threat to his team, but he wants his troops to rise in battle and replicate the kind...
Exeter’s planned new state-of-the-art leisure complex in the city centre will be the greenest development of its kind anywhere in the country, the City Council has revealed.
St Sidwell’s Point, which will be at the heart of the redeveloped bus station site, will be Britain’s first Passivhaus leisure centre.
That means it will be an ultra low energy building, saving at least 70 per cent on its energy costs – around £185,000 a year.
The centre’s three pools will also have exceptional water quality, with minimal chemical content.
