impressive 38-0 win over Harlequins<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\nIkitau helped set up Henry Slade’s first try while Hooper was part of a dominant forward pack that reduced Quins to few chances.<\/p>\n
Ikitau linked up with his new team-mates a fortnight ago while Hooper has only been in the country for a week after both played for Australia in the Rugby Championship. <\/p>\n
“Those guys have just come straight in. It’s like they’ve been there all the way through the season,” “McMillan told BBC Sport after the game.<\/p>\n
“Not just what you’ve seen out on the paddock today, but also within our environment.<\/p>\n
“These guys are from the other side of the world, but they’re well versed in rugby and they’re also rugby men.”<\/p>\n
The win was Exeter’s second in four league games this season – half the tally of victories they achieved throughout the entirety of the last campaign. <\/p>\n
McMillan says their statement win over Quins shows the improvements Exeter are making following their worst-ever season in the top flight.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been questioned the past around us behind the scenes and what’s gone on,” added McMillan.<\/p>\n
“You’re starting to see actually that there are good people here, there’s good men here, there’s proper rugby people here.<\/p>\n
“Guys like that with international quality step into our environment and they’ve just spoken to the guys about they feel like they’ve joined a bunch of brothers.<\/p>\n
“That’s huge for us that they feel like they’ve done that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter Chiefs coach Ross McMillan says Australia internationals Len Ikitau and Tom Hooper have slotted in seamlessly to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-227023","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\/227023","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=227023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}