As statements go this was as big as they get.

Exeter Chiefs were a run-of-the-mill second-tier English side when Gareth Steenson arrived in 2008 and the Irish fly-half believes Leinster’s visit to Sandy Park will be the ultimate barometer of just how far the club has come since.

...While Ireland's last chance of a quarter-final representative fell by the wayside.

Exeter became the first English club to lose in this season’s European Champions Cup.