Northampton director of rugby Phil Dowson informed BBC Sport:
“We have been excellent all through the season, it is good now to have the ability to put a full cease on it with an enormous tin cup and say ‘we have been the perfect facet within the league’.
“I believe it regarded like a ultimate.
“That was a correct ultimate the place it was nip and tuck, there have been alternatives, we obtained held up, they obtained held up.
“We possibly weren’t as medical as we might have favored to have been, and that may definitely change the stress.
“However I believed at 60 minutes to go we felt in a very good area and the messages that have been coming again to the teaching group from how the gamers have been speaking to one another and connecting was very optimistic.
“You convey on individuals like Callum Chick and Fraser Dingwall, who’ve been there earlier than, and the final 20 minuets we regarded very robust.”
Departing Northampton captain George Furbank informed BBC Sport:
“I stated to the boys I do not actually know learn how to really feel after the ultimate whistle.
“It was a mixture of reduction, happiness, disappointment, all merged into one.
“It was a special feeling to the final time we gained it – I believe we will have a very good few days to rejoice and it will all sink in.
Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter informed BBC Sport:
“The very first thing it’s important to do in a ultimate is congratulate the opposition as a result of in any other case while you simply speak about your self – it simply feels such as you’re critiquing and criticising your self, and pondering these are the issues we might have executed.
“We had them deep into the sport, beneath stress, scores behind, they’ve sort of caught with what they do.
“I am going to look again and I am going to go ‘we will need to have been fairly good as a result of we compelled two tries out of kicks by’, one the place for no matter motive we do not get our comms fairly proper and we really simply bump the ball out of our personal arms into their arms for one strive, after which the final strive the place they slide it by and it is virtually on a pinpoint.
“You look and go ‘nicely, we compelled Northampton to attain 12 factors with two comparatively speculative kicks by, that is a reasonably fairly good efficiency from us’.”
Northampton: Furbank (c); Freeman, Litchfield, Hutchinson, Hendy; Smith, McParland; Iyogun, Langdon, Millar Mills; Coles, Prowse, Kemeny, Pearson, Pollock.
Replacements: Wright, Fischetti, Inexperienced, Van der Mescht, Lockett, Chick, Mitchell, Dingwall.
Yellow card: Kemeny (51)
Exeter: Woodburn; Feyi-Waboso, Slade, Ikitau, Ridl; Skinner, Varney; Sio, Norey, Iosefa-Scott; Jenkins (c), Zambonin, Hooper, Roots, Fisilau.
Replacements: Dweba, Burger, Tchumbadze, Tshiunza, Vintcent, James, Cairns, Haydon-Wooden.
Yellow card: Jenkins (57)
Referee: Matthew Carley.
