"We are well set in the pool and this weekend we can give ourselves a huge step up into where we want to go. "They are different to the rest of the season because you play the same side two weeks in-a-row," Slade says. Slade was playing for Exeter the week after England's World Cup final against South Africa in Yokohama, a match in which he played the final half an hour. "I just wanted to get straight back into it with Exeter," he says. "It has meant I have not really thought about the World Cup final since.

Source: Irish Independent December 15, 2019 16:52 UTC