By any stretch of the creativeness, Exeter Chiefs’ 17-15 win over Newcastle on Saturday was a troublesome watch.
While the 2 different Gallagher Premiership matches performed that day have been feasts of operating rugby, Tub and Gloucester overcoming Harlequins and Bristol in high-scoring clashes, the Chiefs performed their get-out-of-jail card to edge a scrappy affair that was low on leisure and high quality.
The Chiefs have been solely within the lead for 10 minutes of the match and owed their third league win of the season to a late and controversial Greg Fisilau strive, which might have simply been chalked off for foul play on the ruck earlier within the transfer.
Love feeling depressing after a win. Received away with that lads https://t.co/Nj1P3R4Fo2
— TribeTalking (@tribe_talking) March 29, 2025
The match was pock-marked by 27 penalties, and the Chiefs’ excessive turnover fee additionally contributed to a stop-start match between the Premiership’s two backside groups.
Afterwards, the Exeter Chiefs fan-led podcast, TribeTalking, posted: ‘Love feeling depressing after a win. Received away with that one lads’, which prompted a sarcastic response from Chiefs legend Henry Slade, whose conversion of Will Rigg’s early strive in the end separated them from the Falcons.
Slade wrote: ‘Good and constructive from you guys as all the time.’
TribeTalking didn’t again down, replying, ‘Sladey, we love you man, and we’ll comply with you boys all over the place, however yesterday was like watching your dad and mom have intercourse. Awkward and never precisely a activate.’
