Exeter took 'step forward' in Saints loss - Baxter

Exeter head of rugby Rob Baxter says he is seeing advancement successful his broadside aft they claimed a losing prize constituent astatine reigning Premiership champions Northampton.

The Chiefs scored 2 precocious tries to come distant from Franklin's Gardens pinch a 30-24 defeat.

That came a week aft an error-strewn 17-14 nonaccomplishment astatine location to Leicester, meaning Baxter's broadside person mislaid their opening 2 Premiership fixtures for nan first clip successful 3 seasons.

"I deliberation we sewage ample parts right, we spent a batch of clip successful nan correct areas of nan field, but we're still patchy connected our individual correction count," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.

"But I think, collectively, arsenic a team, we took a measurement forward."

Exeter trailed 30-10 pinch 12 minutes near earlier England winger Immanuel Feyi-Waboso went complete doubly to adjacent nan spread and guarantee a 2nd constituent of nan play from 2 games.

"Some of it is reasonably simple, and that's nan frustrating thing, and it's virtually nan lads being conscionable a small spot difficult connected fundamentally conscionable keeping it elemental and letting things happen," added Baxter.

"We're forcing an atrocious batch that we should beryllium capable to [just] fto hap if we were a really comfortable, good, assured side.

"That's astir apt really I'm going to attack nan adjacent reappraisal - I'm going to show them these things and opportunity 'come connected guys, if you fto this conscionable beryllium elemental present you're astir apt going to score'.

"That said, we've already taken immoderate beautiful large chunks guardant from past week - nan guidance person a backmost disconnected nan section and we took nan scrum, we scored nan effort - there's a elemental measurement of doing things.

"That is simply a measurement guardant very quickly - having said that, different elements of our crippled weren't arsenic bully arsenic past week, that's what it's going to beryllium for illustration for a week aliases two."

Baxter said his players were near disappointment aft nan game, having sewage backmost into it successful nan last quarter.

He drew parallels pinch nan Exeter broadside that won an English and European double successful 2020 successful respect to really nan existent squad person claimed points successful losses this season.

"If we are a bully capable squad that we are finishing wrong six points aliases amended of each force we play distant from location we're going to beryllium a beautiful good, very competitory team," he said.

"One of nan hallmarks of what made america a very bully squad a fewer years agone was location were 2 seasons wherever I deliberation we took astatine slightest a constituent successful each crippled but 1 we played, thing for illustration that.

"You cognize you're a bully broadside erstwhile that's happening - it intends you're going to triumph astir of your games and if you're going to beryllium that adjacent successful nan ones you suffer past you're a beautiful bully side.

"We've sewage to find that value of toughness and machine-like expertise astatine nan basics of what we do, but we're still going to person to activity astatine that for a number of weeks, months, seasons to beryllium very, very good."