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Exeter Chiefs send 5 on loan to Championship
By Josh Raisey
Exeter Chiefs have sent five players on loan to Championship outfit Cornish Pirates on dual registration ahead of next season.
Two members of the quintet, 21-year-old flyhalf Iwan Jenkins and 26-year-old back row Hallam Chapman, will return to Mennaye Field having spent periods of last season with the Pirates, who have a longstanding relationship with the Chiefs.
Chapman joined the Pirates in March after signing for Rob Baxter's side in November following the demise of his former club Jersey Reds. Former Wales U20 flyhalf Jenkins was also part of a contingent of Chiefs players who joined the Pirates this time last year, but returned to Sandy Park to help in their Premiership Rugby Cup campaign, where he started on the bench in the semi-final loss to Gloucester.
Jenkins will be joined by fellow 21-year-olds, centres Chester Ribbons and Charlie McCaig, in making the move from Devon to Cornwall over the summer.
Hooker Sol Moody is the final member of the Pirates' new recruits. The 19-year-old signed a new Exeter contract in April.
After finishing last season in second place in the Championship, the Pirates will get their new season underway on the road against Nottingham on Friday September 20.
“We have a fantastic working relationship with Cornish Pirates and the coaches there,” director of rugby Baxter said.
“It has been a longstanding, and well-worked, relationship. We’re delighted that we can have players on loan with Pirates, giving them not only very good coaching but also that real competitive training and game-time in what is a very good, strong and competitive league.”
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oh ok, seems strange you didn't put the limit at 7 given you said you thought 8 was too many!
Why did you say "I've told you twice already how I did it but your refuse to listen" when you had clearly not told me that you'd placed a limit of 8 teams per league?
"Agreed with 4 pool of 4 and home and away games?"
I understand the appeal of pools of 4, but 6 pool games might not go down well with the French or the South Africans given already cramped schedules. I do still think that you're right that that would be the best system, but there is going to be a real danger of French and SA sides sending b-teams which could really devalue the competition unless there is a way to incentivise performance, e.g. by allowing teams that do well one year to directly qualify for the next year's competition.
Go to commentsFoster should never have been appointed, and I never liked him as a coach, but the hysteria over his coaching and Sam Cane as a player was grounded in prejudice rather than fact.
The New Zealand Rugby public were blinded by their dislike of Foster to the point of idiocy.
Anything the All Blacks did that was good was attributed to Ryan and Schmidt and Fozzie had nothing to do with it.
Any losses were solely blamed on Foster and Cane.
Foster did develop new talent and kept all the main trophies except the World Cup.
His successor kept the core of his team as well as picking Cane despite him leaving for overseas because he saw the irreplaceable value in him.
Razor will take the ABs to the next level, I have full confidence in that.
He should have been appointed in 2020.
But he wasn’t. And the guy who was has never been treated fairly.
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