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Exeter's winning Premiership Rugby Cup run has "rebuilt the confidence" of the side according to coach Ricky Pellow.

The Chiefs impressed in a 31-7 win over Gloucester on Friday to ensure victories in all three of their pool games during the international break.

The club came into the competition having lost a club-record six successive Premiership matches at the start of the season.

"What this block has done is it has rebuilt the confidence," skills coach Pellow, who runs the cup side, told ����ý Radio Devon.

"When you lose six you are going to be a little bit dented and I think what this period has done is probably put some paper over those cracks.

"What we've got to do now is fill the cracks and rebuild and keep growing."

Exeter return to league action on Saturday with a tough trip to Premiership leaders Bath.

They also travel to South Africa to face Sharks in Durban in the European Champions Cup before hosting French side Toulouse next month.

Chiefs are second-from-bottom of the league by virtue of their bonus points, having lost to bottom side Newcastle last month.

"We've talked about it in the week and we'll talk about it going into next week, what exciting games we've got coming forward," Pellow added.

"They're not games that we need to be worried about and change or go back into our shells; these are games that we've got to go out to attack.

"We've got to go out to South Africa, then we've got Toulouse. These games now are probably made for how we want to be as a team moving forward, that we're going to fight for every part of the pitch and have a group that's going to work together."