‘It might still feel personal and that’s fine,’ says director of rugbyExeter hope to welcome back key forwards for Saracens reunionExeter’s Rob Baxter says he wants his players to use any lingering bitterness over the Saracens salary cap saga as extra motivational fuel when the two fierce Premiership rivals meet at Sandy Park for the first time in almost two years this Saturday.
The Chiefs’ director of rugby, who is hoping to welcome back a trio of fit-again international forwards in Luke Cowan-Dickie, Jonny Hill and Scotland’s Jonny Gray, was among those upset by Saracens’ behaviour before their demotion to the Championship and suggested that, in certain cases, resentment might still be smouldering.