Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan told BBC Radio Bristol:<\/p>\n
“In minutes 40 to 60 [the game was lost]. We had opportunities, we couldn’t get out of our half. We had few opportunities out there in the first half when we were leading 26-10, but ultimately Exeter came out one point on top.<\/p>\n
“Sport is amazing – we score at the end and it’s a totally different story, but it isn’t. So, from my side, well done to Exeter.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t finish our opportunities and ultimately you only get so many opportunities in a semi-final and Exeter took theirs and we didn’t.<\/p>\n
“Both play-off games were incredible, an advert for the Prem, but from our side it’s not a nice way to lose it.”<\/p>\n
Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter told BBC Radio Devon:<\/p>\n
“I still don’t know how we’ve come up with it, if I’m honest. You watch it, you just go, ‘How are we holding them out. This feels inevitable that they’ll squeeze over,’ but we’ve done it, the whistle’s gone and we’re in a final. <\/p>\n
“They’re a special group of lads and I’m so proud I’ve got one more week with them as a whole group.<\/p>\n
“My overriding emotion is that I’m so pleased that the lads that are leaving have the chance to be part of a good Exeter Chiefs season.”<\/p>\n
Bath: De Glanville; Cokanasiga, Lawrence, Ojomoh, Arundell; Spencer (c), Carreras; Obano, Dunn, Du Toit Roux, Ewels, Bayliss, Underhill, Barbeary.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Tuipulotu, Van Wyk, Sela, Molony, Hill, Van der Linde, Redpath, Reid.<\/p>\n
Sin-bin: Cokanasiga (64 mins)<\/p>\n
Exeter: Woodburn; Brown-Bampoe, Slade, Ikitau, Ridl; Skinner, Varney; Sio, Norey, Iosefa-Scott, Jenkins (c), Zambonin, Hooper, Tshiunza, Fisilau.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Dweba, Burger, Tchumbadze, Tuima, Vintcent, Cairns, Wimbush, Hammersley.<\/p>\n
Sin-bin: Slade (10).<\/p>\n
Referee: Christophe Ridley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan told BBC Radio Bristol: “In minutes 40 to 60 [the game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}