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Baxter searches for improvement as Exeter lose again

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Monday, 13 January 2025 01:28

Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter says it is up to him and his coaches to get the side out of its current poor run of form.

The Chiefs were thrashed 69-17 by French Top 14 leaders Bordeaux in the Champions Cup on Saturday.

The loss, which saw Exeter concede 11 tries, ended any outside hopes of making the knockout stages.

Exeter opened the scoring thanks to Paul Brown-Bampoe's try, but from then on it was all Bordeaux as the French side went 31-5 up at half-time before adding another 38 points in the second half.

It was the latest defeat in a difficult season for Exeter who have won just one of 13 games across the Premiership and Champions Cup all season.

"I've just said to the coaches we've got to find the ways to get them to get those fundamentals, those foundations, really drilled in and trusting them," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.

"They give you an in into the game that you then work from, we never established that at all.

"I don't think there was one facet of the game where we could go 'we established a base line to work from'."

Baxter said he felt the Chiefs' scrum improved but the same could not be said for set pieces and lineouts.

"If we'd have come away and said we had 90% lineout ball you could probably knock 30 points off the score, and then it looks a lot different," he said.

"That's just one element of it, and we didn't get that in defence either and we didn't really get it in attack."

Baxter added: "We had our moments and we had enthusiasm in attack and we've created some good scores, but can we really say we had a system or a process that looked like it was really challenging Bordeaux on a regular basis?

"I've probably got to say no, and we've got to get through this. We've got to train our way through it, and we've got to take a lot of responsibility because we've got to get the guys believing in it and doing it regularly and trusting it and trusting each other."

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