Premiership: Exeter 42-14 Northampton: Chiefs overcome Saints in scrappy game

Exeter: Hodge; Lilley, Slade, Rigg, Brown-Bampoe; Skinner, Townsend; Sio, Yeandle, Street, Tuima, Jenkins, Vermuelen, Capstick, Roots.

Replacements: Frost, Blose, Iosefa-Scott, Tshiunza, Moloney, Cairns, Haydon-Wood, Tua.

Sin-bin: Rigg (21).

Northampton: Garside; Cousins, Seabrook, Litchfield, Glister; James, Weimann; West, Walker, Millar Mills, Prowse, Munga, Lockett, Brown, Scott-Young.

Replacements: Wright, Haffar, Green, Hunter-Hill, Logan, Benson, Witheat, Baker.

Referee: Karl Dickson.