Exeter now have some respite from their league woes with the Premiership Rugby Cup taking over during the autumn international period.

With Chiefs missing just England’s Henry Slade and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, along with Wales’ Christ Tshiunza, Baxter says he will set to work trying to fix his side’s problems.

They face a trip to Championship side Cornish Pirates on Friday before hosting second-tier Hartpury the following week and then meeting Gloucester in their third pool game.

“This is like a mini pre-season for us,” Baxter said.

“We’ve got a lot of hard work to do and there’s going to be a lot of good, hard training sessions and there’s going to be lot of players getting good game minutes until we settle into a way of playing that we’re comfortable with.

“It’s very hard. I don’t like this. I don’t like seeing the players looking the way they’re having to look because of the levels of performance and the results.

“What do you do? Do you hide yourself away and run away from it or do you get on with it? Right here and now we’re going to get on with it.”