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SAM SKINNER

THE WAY Sam Skinner tells it, he’s blessed. Blessed to play for Exeter Chiefs – “a club with no ego” – and blessed to play for Scotland – “I pinch myself every time I walk out at Murrayfield”.

You can see his point. Exeter are top of the Gallagher Premiership and favourites for the title, if and when it gets finished. They won five out of six in their Champions Cup pool and earned a home quarter-final against Northampton. Whenever that game might be

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