CHIEFS UNCHANGED FOR TONIGHT'S PLAY OFF DECIDER
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- Created on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 09:08
- Published on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 09:08
Exeter Chiefs will field an unchanged side for tonight's 2010 RFU Championship play-off final against Bristol at the Memorial Stadium (1945).
With a slender three points separating the two teams following Chiefs' 9-6 home victory last Wednesday, the winner of tonight's deciding leg is set to achieve the ultimate prize of Premiership rugby in 2010/11.
Exeter head coach Rob Baxter said: "It is pretty simple for us now. We have just got to go out and play a game of rugby. This bunch of players and their attitude they can play anywhere.
"You cannot defend a three-point lead. We have said all along that we are not in the final to be safe; we are going to play to win it. It's about attacking the game and doing what we do very well, which is playing rugby.
"We had a re-shuffle in the back-line because we had an injury in the team. We had not played in a televised game this season, but Bristol had. We don't play evening fixtures. We dealt with all that extremely well. In fact, we seemed to relish it and we will be better prepared tonight.
"In some ways the late changes were the biggest positive for us. That backline had literally five minutes at the end of the team run with each other. They thought Bryan Rennie had a bloody nose; they did not think they would have to play in that formation the next day.
"We won the last game and we played in a way that won us the game. If we play in a way that win's us the game tonight, we will be happy!"
Tonight's game is being shown live on Sky Sports and also being broadcast on BBC Radio Devon.
Exeter: 15 Mark Foster 14 Matt Jess 13 Nic Sestaret 12 Phil Dollman 11 Paul McKenzie 10 Gareth Steenson 9 Haydn Thomas 1 Brett Sturgess 2 Neil Clark 3 Hoani Tui 4 Tom Hayes (capt) 5 James Hanks 6 Chad Slade 7 James Scaysbrook 8 Richie Baxter
replacaments: 16 Simon Alcott 17 Chris Budgen 18 David Gannon 19 Tom Johnson 20 Clive Stuart-Smith 21 Danny Gray 22 Matt Cornwell
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