Scrum-half’s arrival and a change of focus during lockdown has taken Neal Hatley’s men to within 80 minutes of Twickenham
Bath’s last match before lockdown was at Exeter where they were fortunate to lose by only 57-20. They return to Sandy Park for Saturday’s play-off semi-final a team transformed thanks to some soul-searching and the arrival in June of the England scrum-half Ben Spencer from Saracens, a player who has provided the missing link.
Bath have lost one match out of nine since the restart, by four points at home to Wasps. While they are the underdogs with Exeter already in the final of the European Champions Cup and bidding to reach Twickenham for a fifth successive year, a team who were sixth in the table at the restart and as close to Leicester in 11th as they were to Sale in second are not short on belief.
Written by Paul Rees
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/oct/09/ben-spencer-leadership-bath-exeter-premiership-semi-final under the title “Ben Spencer gives Bath hope against Exeter back at the place of pain”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
