Exeter Chiefs have named a 39-man squad to play Bristol Bears in a pre-season match that will feature two separate starting teams and a shared bench.
Two tries from Juan Martin Gonzalez ensured London Irish finished a difficult week on a high as they saw off Exeter Chiefs 17-14 at the Gtech Stadium.
London Irish have allayed fears that their final match of the Gallagher Premiership season might not take place as they have named a matchday squad featuring nearly all their star players.
Exeter have revealed the real reason why Stuart Hogg didn’t travel on the three-Test Scotland tour to Argentina in July was because of an operation to remedy an injury that left him playing through the pain barrier last season.
Exeter have made Tonga international Solomone Kata their fifth signing ahead of the 2022/23 season, the 27-year-old agreeing to a one-year deal.
Rob Baxter has named the seven Exeter Chiefs players who will be dual registered with Cornish Pirates, the Championship outfit that Patrick Schickerling played with last winter before returning to the Premiership club and earning an England summer tour call-up.
Ex-England international Andy Goode has rated the performance of Henry Slade, the Test level midfielder who started his first match in five years as the Exeter out-half when they were beaten last Sunday at arch-rivals Saracens.
Playoff-chasing Exeter have turned the clock back five years regarding Henry Slade and the part the England midfielder will play in this Sunday's Gallagher Premiership match at arch-rivals Saracens.
Exeter player ratings live from Thomond Park: This was epic Easter fare every bit as absorbing and exhausting as the tumult the last time Munster hosted Exeter in Limerick in January 2019.