Rob Baxter insists there is a “burning desire” amongst the Exeter Chiefs coaching staff to take the Devon club onto even greater things in the future, after he and his three trusty lieutenants - Ali Hepher, Rob Hunter and Ricky Pellow - today all agreed new three-year deals with the Aviva Premiership champions.
Baxter will take on the new title of Director of Rugby for the 2017/18 season, while Hepher has been named the club’s new Head Coach. Both Hunter (Forwards Coach) and Pellow (Skills Coach) will continue in their current roles, both of which have seen them help take the...
The biggest rugby sevens festival in the South West returns to Exeter on July 15th and 16th, with 12 international European teams competing in the Mitsubishi Motors Exeter 7s at Sandy Park and the best amateur teams playing in the SW Rugby 7s at Topsham Sports Ground. Thousands of spectators have packed Sandy Park in the previous two Exeter 7s events and this year’s tournament is set to be even bigger and better, with more rugby and entertainment on offer for fans. The Mitsubishi Motors Exeter 7s is the final leg of the Rugby Europe Sevens Series, which started in Russia on June 3rd and...
New Exeter Chiefs signing Nic White says he feels like he has made '45 new friends' since joining the team.
The Australian international joined this summer from French Top 14 club Montpellier Herault Rugby.
With fellow Aussies such as Julian Salvi, Lachie Turner, Ollie Atkins, Ben White and Dave Dennis already embedded with the Chiefs, the scrum-half was guaranteed a warm welcome.
Nic said having fellow countrymen around him made it easier to settle in but he added: "It feels like after a couple of weeks I have 45 new best mates!"
Stars from the sporting, entertainment and culinary world came together last Friday 30th June to celebrate Devon's community sporting heroes and heroines for the 20th Devon Sports Awards.
The glittering celebration evening was the culmination of a six month nomination and shortlisting process. The Devon Sports Awards recognise and celebrate the best of both community and professional sport in Devon. Guests assembled at Sandy Park for the annual celebration organised by a partnership of the Exeter Foundation, Active Devon and Exeter College.
A special ceremony has been held to celebrate completion of the recent improvements to the Sandy Park junction in Exeter.
The £2.5 million junction was opened ahead of schedule in April.
To mark its completion, Devon County Council chairman Ray Radford unveiled a plaque at the site today (Friday 30 June) and also took the opportunity to congratulate the Exeter Chiefs on their recent Aviva Premiership title triumph.
The upgraded layout has provided a signalised junction that now allows right turns in and out of the site, improving access to the Sandy Park Stadium and...
It seems the on-field success of the Exeter Chiefs is helping boost visitor and booking numbers off it with demand and attendance figures at Sandy Park having increased in recent weeks following the club’s major success at Twickenham.
Less than a month after Rob Baxter’s side lifted English rugby’s top prize for the first time in the club’s history, so companies and organisations are looking to make the most of staging their events at the home of the newly-crowned Premiership Rugby champions.
Enquiries, bookings and footfall at Exeter’s premier conferencing and banqueting...
Walk 10 miles in aid of the Exeter Foundation before enjoying not one, but two Exeter Chiefs pre-season games!
Sponsored by South West Communications, Northcott Beaton, Santander and The Land Rover Experience, The Big Walk starts and finishes at the Sandy Park, and takes in a flat, scenic route through the River Exe Valley.
Entry is £25 per person, or team entry is £100, which includes a t-shirt, drink and famous Sandy Park pasty – plus a ticket for the Exeter Chiefs pre-season double header against Cornish Pirates and Newport Gwent Dragons.
Exeter Chiefs star Jack Nowell admitted he was "the most nervous he has been all season" just moments before he found out he was named in the British and Irish Lions squad.
He told a networking event at Sandy Park that he had just finished a gym session and had joined his teammates for lunch when the announcement was made live on TV.
He said: “We had an hour off and I walked into the canteen and there are not normally that many people in there but, on this occasion, the whole room was full and I just though ‘oh no’!”
Rob Baxter believes his Exeter Chiefs squad are better prepared for what lies ahead as they look to secure themselves a place in this season’s Aviva Premiership Final. Having advanced to Twickenham a year ago, only to lose out narrowly to double winners Saracens, Devon’s finest again find themselves within touching distance of another big day out in the capital. Whereas this time last year it was all new and unchartered waters for Baxter and his squad, this time round the Chiefs enter into tomorrow’s semi-final showdown against Saracens at Sandy Park (2:30pm), better equipped to handle the...
Tony Rowe praised his ‘hard working’ Sandy Park team after the Exeter venue was named Business of the Year at the Express & Echo 2017 Business Awards. Exeter Rugby Club’s chairman and chief executive was on hand to pick up the night’s main award at a glittering ceremony held at Exeter’s premier Conferencing & Banqueting Centre, Sandy Park. In what has been another fantastic year both on and off the field, Sandy Park’s success was confirmed by the awards judging panel who were clearly impressed by the attention to detail put in by the company across the board. The black-tie event,...
