Exeter lose their way in the fog against determined Bordeaux

• Exeter 7-13 Bordeaux• Home defeat leaves Chiefs facing eliminationEuropean rugby is meant to be the pinnacle of the club game in the northern hemisphere but qualifying for the last eight is not everyone’s priority. Bordeaux’s director of rugby, Raphael Ibanez, skipped this fixture to fulfil his duties for French television in Toulon and his side could not have been blamed had they simply dialled in a performance on a chilly, foggy Sunday night in Devon.Instead they dug in sufficiently to terminate Exeter’s interest in the Champions Cup for this season barring a quite miraculous sequence of r…