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Exeter Chiefs’ director of rugby Rob Baxter has referred to as the fixture schedule an “absolute insanity”.
He mirrored on Harlequins’ run of video games. Quins confronted Toulouse within the Champions Cup semi-final six days earlier than they’d a Premiership recreation. Quins had been the group Exeter confronted on Saturday with the south west facet beating them 58-26 at Sandy Park.
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“I spoke to a few their coaches afterwards. I mentioned no-one appreciates how onerous it’s to come back again from Toulouse on a Sunday and play on a Saturday greater than I.
“The Premiership calendar doesn’t assist English groups in Europe. If we had received to the semi-final, we’d have needed to play Gloucester on the Sunday pre-Toulouse on the Saturday.
“It’s simply absolute insanity what we do. However we suffered in opposition to Bathtub and we’ve taken benefit of it at this time.”
Feyi-Waboso is making folks look foolish once more. pic.twitter.com/YRnYFmhlZS
— Ben Coles (@bencoles_) Could 11, 2024
Exeter’s match in opposition to Harlequins was an excellent audition for extra England caps for Immanuel Feyi-Waboso who had an unbelievable efficiency.
Not solely did Feyi-Waboso impress however Ethan Roots and England hopeful Greg Fisilau did too. Baxter had spoken about permitting the gamers to shine, significantly as they got here up in opposition to two England gamers in Chandler Cunningham-South and Alex Dombrandt.
“We talked about it as a group within the week, there’s a direct battle occurring there isn’t there?” mentioned Baxter.
“You’ve got Dombrandt and Cunningham-South of their again row and you have Fisilau and Roots in our again row. There was a head-to-head confrontation occurring there about who’s touring with England.
“They’ve all been concerned in England or England A squads, we talked about it within the week… are we going to provide our lads the platform to come back out on high of that? I feel Greg put down as huge a marker as he may.”
England will tour New Zealand this summer time, in addition to play Japan in Tokyo.
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