{"id":790236,"date":"2026-10-03T02:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790236\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:10:08","slug":"the-prem-bath-40-34-exeter-bath-beat-chiefs-in-11-try-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790236\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prem: Bath 40-34 Exeter: Bath beat Chiefs in 11-try thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bath director of rugby Johann van Graan told BBC Radio Somerset:<\/p>\n

“It was a crazy game of rugby once again, Bath versus Exeter. We started the game really well but then they came out punching after half-time and scored three unanswered tries.<\/p>\n

“But then that’s why this game is a 23-man effort as we then came back with the impact of our eight (subs) who made a really good difference, so I’m really happy with the five points.<\/p>\n

“We’re very proud of our bench and numbers 16 to 23 at this club are just as important as numbers one to 15.” <\/p>\n

Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter told BBC Radio Devon:<\/p>\n

“The important emotion is I’m walking away going ‘we’ve got a team here and we’ve got something to work with’.<\/p>\n

“Last week was such a patchy performance (losing 45-24 to Gloucester<\/a>) but today we showed a lot of good qualities.<\/p>\n

“The qualities of being in a fight to the death, that’s what Exeter Chiefs are about. Do you want to be perfect or do you want to be in a fight every single week? Well we’ll be in a fight every single week.<\/p>\n

“I’m quite happy with that, that’s what we’re good at and I saw that today.”<\/p>\n

Bath: Donoghue; Cokanasiga, Lawrence, Redpath, de Glanville; Russell, van der Linde; Obano, Dunn, Stuart, Roux, Ewels (capt), Richards, Pepper, du Preez.<\/p>\n

Replacements: Frost, Kirk, Griffin, Hill, Reid, Carr-Smith, Ojomoh, Coetzee. <\/p>\n

Exeter: Woodburn; Feyi-Waboso, Slade, Butt, Wyatt; Skinner, Varney; Burger, Yeandle, Iosefa-Scott, Wilson, Jenkins (capt), E Roots, James, Fisilau. <\/p>\n

Replacements: Gulley, Goodrick-Clarke, Tchumbadze, Beckerleg, Worley Brady, Wolstenholme, Haydon-Wood, Wimbush.<\/p>\n

Sin-bin: Varney (61)<\/p>\n

Referee: Luke Pearce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bath director of rugby Johann van Graan told BBC Radio Somerset: “It was a crazy game of rugby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790236","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\/790236","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=790236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}