Exeter Chiefs: Rob Baxter’s ‘bright future for the club’ belief aired as long-term boss makes decision on future
Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter (pictured) has signed a new deal with the club.
Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter has committed his long-term future to the club, after signing a new multi-year deal.
Baxter, who played over 300 times for Exeter in his playing days, has delivered unprecedented success since taking over as the club’s head coach in 2009. In his first season in charge, Exeter won promotion to the top flight for the first time in their history, before going on to add two PREM titles, three PREM Rugby Cups and one Investec Champions Cup to the trophy cabinet in the subsequent 16 years.
The DoR has also recently made a return to front-line coaching, with Exeter currently sat in fourth place in the PREM table in his first full season back at the helm.
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Commenting on the new deal, Baxter said: “I’m delighted to have signed a contract extension. I’ve been involved here a long time, had some fantastic experiences and some tough ones along the way too, though thankfully those have been few and far between.
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“To have the club be happy to extend my time here makes me proud. The key thing for me is how excited I am and how enthused I am to work with the current crop of players we have here at Chiefs as well as the players we’ve already signed for next season, the young academy players coming through our pathway, and the group of coaches.
“I can really see a bright future for the club. I genuinely feel we’re going to be a club challenging others at the right end of the PREM and hopefully we’ll grow into a team who battles it out in the latter stages of European competition in the future too.
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“That is certainly my aim, and I know the club are very ambitious in what they still want to achieve. Hopefully things align and we go on to achieve great things.”
Also commenting, Exeter Chiefs CEO and chairman, Tony Rowe, added: “Rob has been front and centre of the growth of this club having helped build its foundations as a player. He is an Exeter Chiefs man through and through and has led us through some of our most memorable moments.
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“He has also built a new coaching team and a young squad that are already keen and able to compete at the top level. It will be exciting to see where he can take them in the next few years.”
Baxter’s new deal also adds further stability to the club’s new-look coaching group, with Dave Walder, Haydn Thomas, Ross McMillan, James Wilson and Glen Townson secure in post.