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Exeter: Turner; Whitten, Slade, Hill, Woodburn; J Simmonds, White; Hepburn, Cowan-Dickie, Francis, Skinner, Hill, Dennis, Armand (capt), S Simmonds

Replacements: Yeandle, Moon, Holmes, Lees, Ewers, Townsend, Steenson, Nowell

Gloucester: Hudson; Sharples, Trinder, Atkinson, Marshall; Williams, Heinz (capt); Hohneck, Hanson, Afoa, Savage, Slater, Ackermann, Ludlow, Morgan

Replacements: Matu'u, McAllister, Balmain, Thrush, Polledri, Braley, Burns, Twelvetrees

Beautiful day for it.

If Glos turn up this could be a cracker.

Edit: looks like they have!!

Great start from glos.

Wow, that's some absolute butchery from Turner and Armand there.

Welp there is Eddies reason to not pick Armand.

It was almost harder to not score there.

Oh my word. You'd give an under 10 a hard time over that one.

surprised Cordero isn't in the Exeter team.

Everything about Turner tells you he’s never played test rugby and came through the English system in the dark days Noon, Erinle etc etc. Yet here he is an ex-Aus international on, what I assume is, a big wodge of cash.

Great work from exe. Such an intense period of play. I reckon glos could be knackered come the final mins.

Tigersman wrote:Welp there is Eddies reason to not pick Armand.

It was more turner's fault really.

Hrmm, Gloucester need to go back to the drawing board… Foley is refusing to call maul on the choke tackle and it looked like what they planned to do from the off

twitchy wrote:

Tigersman wrote:Welp there is Eddies reason to not pick Armand.

It was more turner's fault really.

But I bet Courtney Lawes playing at 7 would've scored that.

LCD and his lock really need to spend some time working on their timing and lineout throwing.

Hepburn!! Flats’ man love is well placed.

16th man wrote:LCD and his lock really need to spend some time working on their timing and lineout throwing.

LCD can't get near the England 2 shirt throwing like this.

Oakboy wrote:

16th man wrote:LCD and his lock really need to spend some time working on their timing and lineout throwing.

LCD can't get near the England 2 shirt throwing like this.

Going by stats, this match is an anomaly. Saying that, it’s definitely Jonny Hill’s faulty

Glos knackered already imo.

Looks like Exe agree.

Oakboy wrote:

16th man wrote:LCD and his lock really need to spend some time working on their timing and lineout throwing.

LCD can't get near the England 2 shirt throwing like this.

Get on! LCD should be starting for England. Sooner we stop picking holes and select a side to win the sooner England will look worthy of being WC winning material.

Mark ‘the magician’ Atkinson. Cap him. Cap him now.

Exe's l/o was unusually inefficient. LCD did contribute to that but there didnt appear to be the required coordination and timing you would expect.
Other than that, Exe and LCD were unstoppable. Hepburn sensationally good. I'm liking Skinner more every game, J Simmonds is developing very nicely and Slade was first rate.
Glos just blown away.

Skinner looks a genuine wildcard for England

That said his rise to test level can only be a reality if Hartley continues to be free to orchestrate our path form WC hopefuls to third rate dross.