Bath v Saracens Sat 12.45

[fivepointer]

Bath Rugby: 1 Beno Obano, 2 Tom Dunn, 3 Thomas du Toit, 4 Quinn Roux, 5 Charlie Ewels, 6 Ted Hill, 7 Guy Pepper, 8 Alfie Barbeary, 9 Ben Spencer (c), 10 Finn Russell, 11 Will Muir, 12 Cameron Redpath, 13 Ollie Lawrence, 14 Joe Cokanasiga, 15 Tom de Glanville

Replacements: 16 Niall Annett, 17 Francois van Wyk, 18 Will Stuart, 19 Ross Molony, 20 Sam Underhill, 21, Louis Schreuder, 22 Max Ojomoh, 23 Miles Reid

Saracens: 1 Phil Brantingham, 2 Jamie George, 3 Fraser Balmain, 4 Maro Itoje (c), 5 Nick Isiekwe, 6 Theo McFarland, 7 Toby Knight, 8 Ben Earl, 9 Gareth Simpson, 10 Fergus Burke, 11 Rotimi Segun, 12 Olly Hartley, 13 Alex Lozowski, 14 Tobias Elliott, 15 Liam Williams

Replacements: 16 Kapeli Pifeleti, 17 Eroni Mawi, 18 Alec Clarey, 19 Harry Wilson, 20 Nathan Michelow, 21, Ivan van Zyl, 22 Sam Spink, 23 Angus Hall

[Slater582]

Interested to see how Hartley goes. Is Tom Willis injured?

[Which Tyler]

Nice start

Good decision too

[Which Tyler]

Good to see one of those work, even if against my team

ETA: also good to see it disallowed, as it's against my team.

[Which Tyler]

Would need a replay, but I thought it was taken inside the 22 there.

Given the subsequent lineout, I'll call it karma (or me being wrong)

[Which Tyler]

And that tackle's not good
Only question is going to be colour

[Which Tyler]

Williams back early?

[FKAS]

Well this looks like it's going to be a grim afternoon for Sarries. Bad errors just giving Bath a great chance to race out to a lead.

[Which Tyler]

De Glanville didn't need to cut in there, (Coka had Williams nailed), but the ball HAD to be passed, the moment TdT made that decision

[FKAS]

De Glanville didn't need to cut in there, (Coka had Williams nailed), but the ball HAD to be passed, the moment TdT made that decision

Williams didn't even look for the pass.

TdT got smashed by Williams there.

[Which Tyler]

De Granville, not Du Toi, but yes, huge hit.
Huge power from Muir immediately after as well.

ETA : my mistake on TdG first - oops

[Which Tyler]

TBP!
Just before HT

Now, keep playing 2nd half, don't try to sit back and defend

[Which Tyler]

We want 50!

At the very least, we want to beat 2008's +45

[Which Tyler]

Bath bomb squad are on (sponsored by Lush)

[Which Tyler]

Good vision from Underhill to run at the player who's fallen over and obstructing his teammates

[Which Tyler]

Pretty much the first defensive mistake

[Which Tyler]

Harsh but fair to disallow that.

Smallest of knock ons that needed that much hunting to find. Absolutely correct, just feels robbed.

[Which Tyler]

We want 50!

At the very least, we want to beat 2008's +45

Got the 50

Beat the +45

Even beat the 66 for

[Epaminondas Pules]

Considering the obvious one sided nature of the game I thought Phil Brantingham was bloody excellent!

[fivepointer]

Horrible afternoon for Saracens. The early cards, losing players and having to contend with an on song Bath were simply too much.

[twitchy]

I haven't seen a more disastrous 5 mins for a team all season. Bath still did very well.