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Newcastle 14-20 ExeterStruggling Falcons fall to seventh successive defeatRob Baxter and his Exeter players were able to do something they had not done for a long time. For the first time in 13 months, the Chiefs could finally savour an away win in the Premiership, thus condemning their hosts to a seventh successive defeat this season.You had to sympathise for Alex Codling and his Falcons, who showed impressive spirit and no little skill to overturn Exeter’s lead with two early tries from the hooker Jamie Blamire and their outside centre Matias Moroni. Exeter, though, were not to be denied and second-half scores from Henry Slade and Josh Iosefa-Scott, adding to Immanuel Feyi-Waboso’s outrageous first-minute opener, saw them home. Continue reading...