Care walked out forward of the remainder of his team-mates along with his kids for his closing look at The Stoop, as all sides of the well-known floor gave him an emotional standing ovation.
His team-mates wanted simply 175 seconds to open the scoring as Cadan Murley went over within the left nook because of Rodrigo Isgro’s lengthy move.
Exeter had Tamati Tua sin-binned 4 a 14th-minute head-on-head conflict with Quins skipper Alex Dombrandt because the hosts had 85% of the possession within the first quarter.
They ultimately made it inform when beginning scrum-half Will Porter – carrying the 21 shirt – darted across the quick facet of a Twenty first-minute line-out maul.
However simply after the kick-off Exeter responded as full-back Josh Hodge – one of many few brilliant lights of their disappointing season – broke via the Quins defence and Rus Tuima was readily available to energy over from shut vary regardless of being a person down.
Seven minutes later the returning Tommy Wyatt bought on the tip of a line-out maul for his fourth Exeter attempt of the season, however Henry Slade missed the conversion for the Chiefs, who had new backs coach Dave Walder in attendance for the primary time.
Exeter continued to develop and so they went forward three minutes into the second half when Stu Townsend capitalised on a Wyatt break because the struggling Devon facet confirmed some much-needed confidence.
The guests did nicely to repel a variety of harmful Quins assaults because the half wore on – an unlimited enchancment up to now few weeks which culminated in a disastrous 79-17 loss final month at Gloucester that price coaches Rob Hunter and Ali Hepher their jobs.
However Exeter might do nothing to cease the person brilliance of England’s Smith because the Quins fly-half celebrated his British and Irish Lions call-up with an outstanding particular person attempt.
With 20 minutes to go he skipped previous 5 tacklers and raced in beneath the posts as his dialog made it 21-19.
A Slade penalty quickly after put Exeter a degree forward earlier than Care got here onto the sector for one final time to the enjoyment of the house followers.
They noticed their facet return in entrance when Smith kicked a penalty from in entrance of the posts.
Quins got here near scoring a fourth attempt when Murley broke via with two minutes left and fed former Chief Tom Lawday, however from the ensuing breakdown Wyatt picked up the ball in an offside place.
For a second it appeared as if Care would try to a kick a penalty to finish his profession.
Nevertheless, with an excessive amount of time left on the clock Quins opted towards it and settled on holding possession to seal the win which moved them as much as seventh place.
