Iosefa-Scott ensures Exeter hold off Gloucester to end 232-day wait for win

12/29/2024 12:02 PM

• Exeter 22-15 Gloucester
• Chiefs resist second-half fightback from visitors

Everything is relative and Exeter are still languishing near the bottom of this season's Gallagher Premiership table. The wave of ecstatic relief generated by this first league win for 232 days, though, was tangible. If they can reproduce the attitude and energy that delivered this long-awaited outcome, there could finally be more uplifting times to come.

It was not without its anxious moments, particularly when Gloucester engineered a second-half fightback from 11 points down to lead 15-14 with 18 minutes left. Chiefs were also mightily relieved when Santi Carreras missed a potentially game-turning penalty in the 70th minute before the replacement prop Josh Iosefa-Scott crashed over for the short-range score that lifted the home side off the foot of the table.