Burns shines in Leicester win

13 September 2014The losing bonus-point defeat for the Devon side was their sixth in seven home Premiership matches, but they will take heart from excellent first-half tries from Dave Ewers and Hayden Thomas.

Both teams made successful starts to their respective Aviva Premiership campaigns, with the Tigers winning 36-17 at home to Newcastle Falcons while the Chiefs romped to a 52-0 victory away to newly-promoted London Welsh.

Exeter named an unchanged starting line-up, which meant that England number eight Thomas Waldrom, who scored two tries on his Chiefs debut, came up aga…