BAXTER: HAVE A REST BEFORE DOUBLE BID

ROB BABAXTER has given his Exeter players an extra half day off as reward for becoming champions champio of Europe.

Chiefs’ Chief history makers have been told not to come to work until lunchtime today, by which titime they may know who they will face in Saturday’s S Premiership final.

Wasps Wasp should play them at Twickenham but are sweating on Covid results after seven oof their playing staff tested positive.

Should Shou they be unable to contain the outbreak, Lee Blackett’s in-form side will forfeit their place and Bristol, whom they easily beat in the semis, will step in.

Centre Henry Slade said: “We’ve got to prepare as if it’s Wasps. Whatever team we have to play we’ll look forward to it.”

Chiefs faced the same scenario when 27 positives at Sale delayed confirmation of their opponents for the semi-finals.

“That week gave us a good opportunity to focus on ourselves,” said Slade. “So we’re not going to worry about who it is.”

Baxter (right) admitted he had to “hold himself back” from going into the changing room straight after the Euro triumph and turning minds towards this week’s game.

“In some ways that was some of our poorest play of the season,” he said. “I was watching us do things and I didn’t know why we were doing them. I wanted to walk in and say, ‘If we play well next week we might win that one as well!’ But that would be unfair.

“That’s not what it is about. In your first big final it is just about getting it done.”