Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has today confirmed that fly-half Ignacio Mieres is to leave the Aviva Premiership club at the end of the season and join rivals Worcester Warriors.
Investment management company, Brewin Dolphin, based in Pynes Hill, Exeter, organised a special visit for students from the Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education to visit Sandy Park as part of their player sponsorship. The group of ten residential students, who travel from all over the South West and as far away as North Wales, were given the chance to meet players from the first team squad.
The Exeter Academy for Deaf Education gives deaf students from 4 to 25 years the chance to improve their potential ; academically, socially and emotionally within the South West and beyond...
Colin Rockey, Head of Special Operations Team tells in his own words about his career within Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service and the honour of receiving the Queens Fire Service Award.
"I joined the fire service 30 years ago on 12th September 1983, before this my career had been very varied. I started out as a civil engineering draughtsmen then I became an MOD apprentice in Devonport dockyards as a mechanical fitter before becoming a British telecom engineer.
"I used to play junior rugby for Plympton and senior rugby for Plymouth Albion, but my rugby career...
Exeter Chiefs coach Ricky Pellow says he wants to see a more clinical edge to his side when they entertain Northampton Saints in their last pool game of this season's LV= Cup (6.30pm).
Exeter Chiefs forwards Ben Moon and James Phillips have extended their contracts at Sandy Park. Moon, 23, has signed a new two-year deal, while 26-year-old Phillips has accepted a one-year offer.
The Exeter Chiefs visited Paignton Zoo recently and came up against some real heavyweights.
Players and staff encountered elephants, giraffes and giant tortoises – and even scrummed down with a gorilla!
Female African elephant Duchess impressed many. Mark Twiggs, Head of Strength & Conditioning, said: “Duchess weighs around 4,000 kilos, which equates to nearly the whole squad!”
“It’s interesting to compare stats,” said Paignton Zoo spokesperson Phil Knowling. “Exeter’s young Academy lock Will Carrick-Smith is 6 feet 11 inches – 2.1 metres. He’s one of the...
Undone by the Irish last week, Exeter Chiefs saw their LV= Cup suffer a blow as another foe from the Emerald Isle proved decisive.
Brought in by Bath earlier in the week on a short-term deal until the end of the season, Irish international Peter Stringer proved the significant difference in this entertaining Westcountry battle at the Recreation Ground.
Exeter Chiefs coach Ricky Pellow says lessons learned from the club's first-ever experience of the Heineken Cup will prove invaluable in the future growth of the Devon outfit.
Recent defeats to Clermont Auvergne and Leinster brought to an end Exeter's European exploits for another season, but Pellow says the challenge of tackling two of the heavyweights clubs in the Northern Hemisphere has served a meaningful purpose.
After two seasons with the Exeter Chiefs, Aly Muldowney is to depart Sandy Park at the end of the current campaign to take up a new challenge with Irish province Connacht.
Signed by Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter from Glasgow Warriors, the 29-year-old forward has since gone onto feature 35 times for the club in all competitions.
The Stafford-born second-row, who is Irish qualified by virtue of his father being born in Newbridge, Co.Kildare, has agreed a three-year contract with the Galway-based outfit.
Commenting on the news, Baxter said: "Obviously we are sad to see...
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter has made his first signing for next season with the capture of Welsh international Tom James from the Cardiff Blues.
The 25-year-old winger, who has agreed a two-year deal with the Aviva Premiership club, joins the Chiefs after a successful seven-year stint with the Welsh region.
Capped ten times by his country, James was on the score sheet when the Blues defeated Gloucester 50-12 in 2008 to lift the EDF Energy Cup, and he was also part of Cardiff’s Amlin Challenge Cup winning squad of 2010.
