{"id":160696,"date":"2025-09-22T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160696\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:16:07","slug":"rob-baxter-exeter-boss-seeing-improvements-as-chiefs-win-in-prem-rugby-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160696\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Baxter: Exeter boss seeing improvements as Chiefs win in Prem Rugby Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter said he can see improvements in his side after they beat Bath 23-14<\/a> in the Prem Rugby Cup.<\/p>\n

The win was a reversal of last year’s final which Bath won, and was a first in the cup this season.<\/p>\n

It comes as Exeter prepare to begin the Premiership campaign at Northampton Saints on Sunday – the Chiefs hope to improve on what was their worst-ever season when they finished second from bottom in May. <\/p>\n

“Things are starting to align in areas of our game,” Baxter told BBC Radio Devon. <\/p>\n

“Our scrum looks very aligned at the moment, [in] what they want to achieve [and] how they want to achieve it.<\/p>\n

“I thought at times our maul did, although we just didn’t quite finish things off, but we’ll get that, so you can feel that’s coming.<\/p>\n

“Some of our defensive sets were OK – Bath haven’t scored loads of points, and we can’t say anything other than we gave them one try under the posts. I don’t know quite how we get that passing play as wrong as we do as it’s really simple.<\/p>\n

“But you take those seven points away and we battled away, we made a few mistakes, and it’s actually been quite a regulation win.<\/p>\n

He added: “This is the bit where we’ve got to get to ourselves to a point where we are composed enough that the bits that just shouldn’t be hurting us, and shouldn’t create pressure on us, just don’t.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter said he can see improvements in his side after they beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-160696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}