Canada prop DaLeaka Menin has signed a new deal to stay at Exeter for the 2025-26 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 30-year-old has played 61 times for the Chiefs since joining in 2021 and has scored 10 tries for the club. She is currently with the Canada squad preparing to tour South Africa before this...
New Zealand tighthead prop Amy Rule will become the first Black Ferns player to move to Premiership Women’s Rugby when she joins Exeter after the World Cup. The 24-year-old has won 29 caps for her country and will sign for Chiefs from Super Rugby Aupiki side Matatu. Rule made her international debut against England in...
Highly-rated Exeter back Tommy Wyatt will not play until 2026 after suffering a serious knee injury. The 25-year-old ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the final game of the season at home to Sale. Wyatt had only returned from a similar injury in his other knee in November which saw him...
Exeter back row Martin Moloney has signed a new contract with the Premiership club. The 25-year-old Irishman moved to Sandy Park from Leinster last summer after a trial period in pre-season. He has gone on to play 15 times in all competitions, scoring three tries. Exeter have not disclosed the length of Moloney’s new deal....
Locks Jack Dunne and Franco Molina are to leave Exeter at the end of the season. Irish forward Dunne, 26, has spent the past three seasons at Sandy Park after joining from Leinster. He has played 41games for the club but has struggled to establish himself in the past two seasons, starting just four Premiership...
Harlequins have signed experienced scrum-half Stu Townsend from Exeter Chiefs. The 29-year-old Devonian made more than 120 appearances for the Chiefs during almost a decade with the club, featuring in two Premiership title-winning campaigns as well as their 2020 European Champions Cup triumph. Townsend played against his new club at The Stoop just over a...
Experienced Exeter Chiefs winger Olly Woodburn has signed a new contract at Sandy Park. The 33-year-old has made 184 appearances for the Chiefs but is currently sidelined, having sustained an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. Woodburn was part of the squad that won the Champions Cup in 2020 and has scored 60 tries for the...
Exeter Chiefs scrum-half Sam Maunder will be released by the club following the conclusion of the 2024-25 Premiership season The 25-year-old has spent the majority of the current campaign on loan with Championship side Coventry and will now join the club on a permanent basis. Maunder played 62 matches for Exeter, starting in 34 of...
Walder has also spent time as Bristol’s backs and skills coach and joins Exeter as the club comes to the end of their worst season in the top flight. They have won just four Premiership games all season and are guaranteed to finish second from bottom. Walder will be part of the Exeter coaching team...
Canada hooker Emily Tuttosi has signed a new deal with Exeter Chiefs for the 2025-26 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 29-year-old has been at Sandy Park since the club was formed in 2020 and has scored 29 tries in 74 appearances. Tuttosi is currently representing Canada in the Pacific Four Series and was part of...
An Exeter Chiefs rugby player has been banned from driving after he was caught drink-driving. Will Goodrick-Clarke told Exeter Magistrates’ Court he made a “massive lapse in judgement” during the incident in the Westclyst area of Exeter in April. The court heard the 29-year-old’s BMW driver was stopped by a routine police patrol near his...
Baxter says he is “really looking forward to pre-season” as he tries to put the worst campaign in Exeter’s recent history behind him. Sunday’s victory was just Exeter’s fourth in the league this season – although as with the win over Saracens in January, it came against a side shorn of its international stars. Chiefs...
Exeter: Hodge; Lilley, Slade, Rigg, Brown-Bampoe; Skinner, Townsend; Sio, Yeandle, Street, Tuima, Jenkins, Vermuelen, Capstick, Roots. Replacements: Frost, Blose, Iosefa-Scott, Tshiunza, Moloney, Cairns, Haydon-Wood, Tua. Sin-bin: Rigg (21). Northampton: Garside; Cousins, Seabrook, Litchfield, Glister; James, Weimann; West, Walker, Millar Mills, Prowse, Munga, Lockett, Brown, Scott-Young. Replacements: Wright, Haffar, Green, Hunter-Hill, Logan, Benson, Witheat, Baker. Referee:...
Exeter prop Demi Swann has agreed a deal to stay with Exeter for the 2025-26 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 29-year-old Canadian – who is also eligible for Scotland – moved to Sandy Park two years ago following the collapse of Worcester Warriors. She has gone on to play 19 times for the Devon side...
Exeter lock Alfie Bell has signed a new deal with the Premiership club. The 22-year-old former England Under-20s player joined Exeter after Wasps collapsed in 2022, alongside Immanuel Feyi-Waboso and Greg Fisilau. He joined Championship side Cornish Pirates on loan in January, having played two Premiership Rugby Cup games for Exeter in the previous two...