Exeter accept break as Premiership rugby announce 18 new Covid cases

Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter: 'Now we just have to adjust ourselves and get ready for maximising this two-week break and get ourselves refreshed.' Picture: Mike Egerton

Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter accepts the two-week break implemented by Premiership Rugby knowing an adjustment to the format of European competition is likely.

Baxter, along with his counterparts Pat Lam of Bristol and Wasps’ Lee Blackett, had called for league games to be brought forward to fill the spare weekends created by the withdrawal of the Top 14 clubs from cross-border competition.