Brent Pilnick

Torbay, Torquay

Sports Reporter at BBC One South West

Multi-award winning sports reporter for BBC in the South West. Proud Jerseyman. Liverpool fan, ex AFCB season ticket holder.

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Rob Baxter: Exeter boss wants to write-off worst-ever top-flight season

6 days ago | bbc.co.uk | Brent Pilnick

Baxter has taken a more hands-on role coaching the side since long-serving assistants Rob Hunter and Ali Hepher were dismissed after the defeat at Gloucester. That loss was the nadir of a season which saw Exeter lose all four of their European games and win just four league matches - two of them against Saracens and Northampton who were without many of their international stars.
Premiership: Exeter 26-30 Sale: Sharks hang on to reach play-offs

6 days ago | bbc.co.uk | Brent Pilnick

Image source, Rex FeaturesImage caption, Bevan Rodd (left) scored his sixth try of the season as Sale made the play-offs for the fourth time in five yearsTries: Brown-Bampoe, Hodge, Haydon-Wood, Capstick Cons: Hodge 3 Tries: Ma'asi-White, Rodd, Cowan-Dickie Cons: Ford 3 Pens: Ford 3Sale secured third place in the Premiership and a play-off semi-final at Leicester with a 30-26 victory over Exeter in a tense encounter at Sandy Park.
Miron Muslic: Schalke appoint Plymouth Argyle boss as head coach

1 week ago | bbc.com | Brent Pilnick

Image source, Rex FeaturesImage caption, Miron Muslic joined Plymouth Argyle in January after Wayne Rooney's sackingSchalke have appointed Plymouth Argyle boss Miron Muslic as their head coach on a two-year deal. Muslic joins a Schalke side who finished 14th in the German second tier this season - the club that was a regular in the Champions League and Europa League for the first two decades of this century will start a fourth season in the past five outside of the Bundesliga.
Jacques Vermeulen: Sale move could ignite South Africa chances

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Brent Pilnick

Vermeulen moved to Exeter from then-Super Rugby side Sharks and has gone on to play more than 100 games for the club. He has been seen as one of the most consistent back-rows in the Premiership, although his time at Exeter has been punctuated by injuries. He is one of the last remaining players at the club to have tasted title success, with Exeter's downward spiral since seeing them finish seventh for three seasons in a row before this year's club-worst ninth-placed finish.
Jersey 'will learn' from T20 World Cup qualifying losses, says head coach

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Brent Pilnick

Image source, ICCImage caption, Jersey's top order struggled to score runs at times during the tournamentJersey head coach Darren Thomas said his side's young players will learn from their failure to reach the next stage of qualifying for the T20 World Cup. It meant they were unable to win promotion from European Division Two of the World Cup qualifiers for the second successive campaign.
Miron Muslic: Plymouth Argyle head coach to leave club

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Brent Pilnick

Image source, Rex FeaturesImage caption, Miron Muslic won nine and lost 10 of his 24 games in charge of Plymouth ArgylePlymouth Argyle head coach Miron Muslic is to leave after opening talks with a German second division club. Argyle, just relegated from the Championship, said they had "reluctantly" allowed the Bosnia-born Austrian to enter into discussions with the Bundesliga 2 club, reported to be Schalke.
Sheffield United fines increase to £445,500 after Plymouth fracas

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Brent Pilnick

Image source, Rex FeaturesImage caption, Plymouth Argyle came back from a goal down to beat Sheffield United at Home ParkChampionship play-off finalists Sheffield United have been fined £180,000 after the latest incident in what the Football Association say is an "incredibly poor period of behaviour". The Blades have been docked the six-figure sum after their sixth breach of the season at the end of their Championship match at Plymouth Argyle last month.
Sheffield United fines increase to £445,500 after Plymouth fracas

2 weeks ago | bbc.co.uk | Brent Pilnick

Image source, Rex FeaturesImage caption, Plymouth Argyle came back from a goal down to beat Sheffield United at Home ParkChampionship play-off finalists Sheffield United have been fined £180,000 after the latest incident in what the Football Association says is an "incredibly poor period of behaviour". With the latest sanction, the Blades have been fined a total of £445,500 this season for recurring issues over player and staff conduct.
Rob Baxter: Exeter boss impressed by 'fight and character' of side

2 weeks ago | bbc.co.uk | Brent Pilnick

The Chiefs came back from conceding inside the first three minutes to twice take the lead in the second half before eventually being edged out. It was a marked improvement for the struggling side, who have won just four games all season and are guaranteed to finish a club-low ninth place in the Premiership. "We've earned the right to be disappointed," said Baxter, who saw a late Marcus Smith penalty earn victory for hosts Quins.
Rob Baxter: Exeter boss impressed by 'fight and character' of side

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Brent Pilnick

The Chiefs came back from conceding inside the first three minutes to twice take the lead in the second half before eventually being edged out. It was a marked improvement for the struggling side, who have won just four games all season and are guaranteed to finish a club-low ninth place in the Premiership. "We've earned the right to be disappointed," said Baxter, who saw a late Marcus Smith penalty earn victory for hosts Quins.