Exeter Chiefs' ambition tailored with common sense

Exeter is a club that has never been asked to run before it could walk and that has fashioned an inexorable rise, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Tony Rowe has made a fortune out of knowing an opportunity when he sees it.

So, when councillors awarded the Portsmouth-born businessman the freedom of the City of Exeter in late-summer of 2015 his immediate instinct was to act on the section of the small print on his fancy new certificate that permitted him to drive sheep through the Devon streets.