Exeter Chiefs v Gloucester Rugby

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Exeter Chiefs:

15 Josh Hodge

14 Immanuel Feyi-Waboso

13 Henry Slade

12 Len Ikitau

11 Olly Woodburn

10 Harvey Skinner

9 Stephen Varney


1 Scott Sio

2 Joseph Dweba

3 Josh Iosefa-Scott

4 Dafydd Jenkins (c)

5 Rusi Tuima

6 Tom Hooper

7 Ethan Roots

8 Greg Fisilau


Replacements:

16 Jack Yeandle

17 Ethan Burger

18 Bachuki Tchumbadze

19 Andrea Zambonin

20 Kane James

21 Charlie Chapman

22 Will Haydon-Wood

23 Ben Hammersley

Gloucester Rugby

15 Charlie Atkinson

14 Ben Redshaw

13 Will Joseph

12 Max Llewellyn

11 Jack Cotgreave

10 Ross Byrne

9 Tomos Williams (C)

1 Ciaran Knight

2 Seb Blake

3 Nepo Laulala

4 Freddie Thomas

5 Matias Alemanno

6 Josh Basham

7 James Venter

8 Hugh Bokenham

Replacements

16 Jack Innard

17 Dian Bleuler*

18 Afo Fasogbon

19 Cam Jordan

20 Jack Mann

21 Caolan Englefield

22 George Barton

23 Will Knight*

*Denotes Prem debut

Match Officials

Referee: Adam Leal

ARs: Alex Thomas & Calum Howard

TMO: Luke Pearce

Weather Forecast as at 1200 Friday

Sunny intervals and a fresh breeze from the north west

Temperature 11 degrees will feel like 8 degrees

Low chance of precipitation

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TV Coverage

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Think we should get max points from this one. Hope our line out is a bit more secure.
Chies 42 Glaws 20

Chiefs 31-20 Glos

Chiefs 38 Gloucester 18

Gloss are missing some big players, so I think we should win this. Chiefs 34 - 15 Gloss.🤞

Always a risk of a banana skin in prem games but Chiefs should be looking to consolidate top 4 position in the circumstances

Bench has reverted from 6-2 to 5-3 perhaps to get some game time into back up 9 and 10 lest Varney/Skinner need a rest or pick up an injury / international call up for Varney.

Like to see Ruisi show a bit more development as others have done in recent weeks , it is in him !

Be interesting to see our cup teams this year but hoping for a crowd over 10000 break even and as I say a top 4 consolidation with some tough games to come

Glos have put out a fairly strong side considering their injuries, but we should have enough to overcome them hopefully.

Wonder what prompted us to revert to a 5/3 split on the bench? Great to see Haydon-Wood back on the bench, let's hope he gets some meaningful game time.

Edit to add score prediction: Chiefs 36 Glos 27



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2025:10:25:09:10:23 by ExeterFan.

Chiefs 39 - 15 Glos

The next block of fixtures are tough, Sale, Saracens, Leicester, Bath and Bristol, I doubt it’s lost on anyone that a 5 point result will be of benefit going into the that group of fixtures. I also feel we have our tales up, Gloucester are without several front line players, so I’m going for a solid Chiefs win.

Chiefs 47 Gloucester 19

Chiefs 35 Glaws 15 sounds reasonable given those lineups.

I’m less confident of a dominant win, but quite a few of our boys will want to lay to rest the ghost of last year’s drubbing at Kingsholm, so I’m hoping they’ll bring it home. Much of it depends on how the front row goes.
Chiefs 31; Glos 26

With Harvey playing well, that backline looks formidable, in both attack and defence.

And a fearsome pack. I wouldn't want to face that back row!

Exe 36 - 18 Glaws but I may be wrong!

Chiefs 32 Glos 15

I think the move to 5:3 is due to our wealth of backs and the comparative resilience of our forwards. PBB 'saved' in favour of Ollie who really did put in a shift last week.
Chiefs 45: Gloucester 18

In Rob we trust.
By the way - cream on first. There's nothing to debate.

I'm quite optimistic which is probably a disaster.

I'm going 47 chiefs 16 glaws

Chiefs 45 Gloucester 18

Would like to have seen Vincent and Brown on the bench real match winners plus start with Zambonin to help our line out, other than that a good side. A must win game imo Exe 38 Glaws 24

Chiefs 37 Glouster 16

Must get 5 points out of this game. As others say a tricky run of fixtures in next block. Wish Zambonin was starting. Quite confident after last week so Chiefs 42 Gloucs 22

Exeter 31 - 12 Gloucester

Chiefs 31 - 24 Glaws

Chiefs 28 - Glos 14

Chiefs 32 - 29 Glaws

Chiefs 33 Glos 28

Gloucester are capable of scoring points, but so far this season they seem pretty incapable of defending! So a high scoring game is likely in my opinion. If we play with the same energy as last week we should have too much for them, on paper we have a much stronger team. As obvious as it is to point out, with confidence not sky high in either team, a fast start would help. If we get early points on the board I could see us running away with it
As Andy says above it's a game we really should be winning, Gloucester have one of the smallest budgets and are struggling with injuries at the moment. I think the players will be itching to get out there after last week and to carry on our improvement. I'm going Chiefs 42 Glous 24

Exe 38 Glos 22