{"id":544566,"date":"2026-03-16T18:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544566\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:35:11","slug":"we-never-really-let-the-foot-off-the-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544566\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We never really let the foot off the gas’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Steve Salvin praised his Exeter Chiefs<\/a> squad after their dominant 47-14 win over Trailfinders<\/a> Women at Sandy Park.<\/p>\n

Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald scored a first half hat-trick on Saturday afternoon, Maisy Allen<\/a> bagged a brace, while Claudia Moloney-MacDonald and Amy Rule<\/a> also dotted down in the Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby<\/a> clash.<\/p>\n

It was an overwhelmingly dominant performance from the Devon club, who kept a Trailfinders team boasting the talents of Meg Jones, Niamh Gallagher<\/a> and Carys Cox<\/a> quiet.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing into the game, when we saw their team announced we had a huge amount to confidence knowing how strong we were,\u201d Salvin told Exeter Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also knew that they hadn\u2019t played a huge amount of rugby recently and that potentially gave us an in to the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way we started the game was really pleasing because we were able to build into it right from the off.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sort of felt like we never really let the foot off the gas. I think on both sides of the ball [Exeter were] outstanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo score seven tries, to concede two, all 23 players got good minutes on the field \u2013 the girls should enjoy tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the race for the semi-finals intensifies, this victory for Salvin\u2019s team could be worth its weight in gold against another top four contending team.<\/p>\n

The club have also got back to winning ways after consecutive losses against top two teams Gloucester Hartpury and Saracens.<\/p>\n

Heading into a Round 15 encounter with basement side Leicester Tigers, Chiefs are firmly in third and eight points ahead of fifth-place Sale Sharks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a reality going into these games that maybe you think; we can nick a win and maybe get a couple of points,\u201d Salvin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou sort of justify that in your own head. But when you get the five and the opposition don\u2019t get anything it\u2019s doubly pleasing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs much as the result is great, it\u2019s probably the performance that is the most pleasing bit, because we\u2019ve had a couple of difficult weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t been at our best and we probably haven\u2019t put our best foot forward in terms of competing with the teams that are currently top two in the league.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what the girls can take from today is, that\u2019s phenomenal team that Ealing put out today and we\u2019ve played particularly well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should take a huge amount of confidence and belief from it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Salvin praised his Exeter Chiefs squad after their dominant 47-14 win over Trailfinders Women at Sandy Park.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-544566","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\/544566","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=544566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}