It’s been amazing to see rugby back on the pitch, and we have been blessed by some amazing weather too! We have been lucky enough to have all our pre-season games home this year, and we opened with a 19-19 draw against Welsh side Bridgend.

We always knew it was going to be a tough game, with 11 new faces in the team it gave the boys chance to have some matchday experience before we head into the thick of the season.

Last week on a beautiful summer's day we welcomed old Championship rivals Exeter Chiefs, albeit their U23 side, to the Brickfields. If I am being honest, I thought that we may have been in for a hammering, and if you were watching the first 10 minutes or so, you would have thought that too.

However, the game soon turned into an electric end-to-end match with us scoring seven

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