{"id":225565,"date":"2025-10-19T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225565\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:21:11","slug":"england-veteran-stars-as-exeter-chiefs-emphaticallly-nil-harlequins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225565\/","title":{"rendered":"England veteran stars as Exeter Chiefs emphaticallly nil Harlequins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exeter centre Henry Slade<\/a> provided a timely reminder of his England<\/a> credentials with a virtuoso performance in a thumping 38-0 win over Harlequins<\/a> at a windswept Sandy Park.<\/p>\n

With the autumn internationals just around the corner, Slade racked up 23 points with two tries, a penalty and five conversions.<\/p>\n

He also created a try for Immanuel Feyi-Waboso<\/a>, with Harvey Skinner<\/a> and Greg Fisilau<\/a> also crossing in a one-sided Gallagher Prem clash.<\/p>\n

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Exeter lost two players ahead of kick-off, with prop Scott Sio<\/a> and wing Paul Bampoe-Brown withdrawing through injury, but they were able to hand debuts to their two Australia<\/a> internationals, flanker Tom Hooper<\/a> and centre Len Ikitau.<\/p>\n

Slade kicked Exeter into a fourth-minute lead with a simple penalty before first Marcus Smith\u2019s restart went straight into touch and then the outside half completely lost his footing when taking a penalty to illustrate just how tricky the conditions were.<\/p>\n

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They were clearly in the Chiefs\u2019 favour in the first half, but both sides struggled to get to grips with them, with Slade\u2019s penalty the only score of a disjointed and forgettable first quarter.<\/p>\n

Exeter then suffered a blow when prop Will Goodrick-Clarke departed with an arm injury to be replaced by Ethan Burger<\/a>, but they overcame the setback to score an excellent try.<\/p>\n

A superbly-judged cross-field kick from Slade was collected with aplomb by Feyi-Waboso, who powered past Tyrone Green<\/a> to score his sixth try of the season.<\/p>\n

Within 90 seconds Exeter scored another as their opponents failed to deal with an up-and-under which went loose. The home side seized possession and quick transfers sent Slade on a 30-metre dash to the line.<\/p>\n

Quins\u2019 woes continued when number eight Chandler Cunningham-South<\/a> was forced off with a leg injury before they then made a mess of fielding another up-and-under to allow Skinner to win a kick and chase to touch down.<\/p>\n

Slade added his third conversion and Exeter had a 24-0 interval lead.<\/p>\n

Within four minutes of the restart the hosts secured their bonus-point try when Fisilau crashed over to reward a period of sustained pressure.<\/p>\n

With 25 minutes remaining Exeter replacement Bachuki Tchumbadze<\/a> was yellow carded for a high challenge on Jack Kenningham<\/a>, but it made no difference as Quins never looked like taking advantage of the prop\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

Tchumbadze returned to be replaced in the sin-bin by Quins captain Cadan Murley<\/a> for a deliberate knock-on, with Harry Browne<\/a> soon following him for a high challenge.<\/p>\n

Up against 13 men, Exeter took full advantage, with Slade scoring his second try to complete a miserable afternoon for the Londoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter centre Henry Slade provided a timely reminder of his England credentials with a virtuoso performance in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-225565","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\/225565","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=225565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}