Exeter 29-10 LeicesterSlade scores 12 points to extend hosts’ unbeaten home record
Christmas is coming but Exeter have already received their perfect gift. A club-record crowd of 15,000 witnessed this dominant bonus-point victory that cements the Chiefs in the upper echelons of the 10-team Premiership table at the season’s halfway point and leaves a hapless Leicester down in eighth.
The Tigers may have not yet consumed their turkey but, until a face-saving late revival, this was a proper stuffing. Exeter led 24-0 after 50 minutes and had way too much energy, line speed and skill for the lacklustre visitors, who had won their previous five games in all competitions. The youthful Chiefs, meanwhile, have not lost at home since October 2022 and are growing in confidence by the week.