Rob Baxter draws on positive numbers as Exeter beat Sale but miss play-offs

• Chiefs narrowly miss out on play-off place but dwell on positives of victory• Rob Baxter: ‘Our supporters are getting used to seeing us not just win but win well’• Exeter agony as Sale are thumped but play-offs prove elusiveTo describe finishing fifth in the Premiership table as a failure is to ignore Exeter’s progress this season. The Chiefs would have enjoyed the play-offs but by every other measure this has been their most consistently successful campaign since being promoted in 2010. By next spring they may well have climbed higher still.A glance at their overall stats underlines that up…