BATH RUGBY - 2014/15

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Pre season
Sat 16th Aug 14;15 Bath vs Scarlets
Sat 23rd Aug 14:15 Jersey vs Bath
 
Sat 6th Sep 14 14:00  Sale Sharks v Bath Rugby
Sat 13th Sep 14 15:00 Bath Rugby v London Welsh
Sat 20th Sep 14 15:15 Bath Rugby v Leicester Tigers
Sat 27th Sep 14 15:15 Northampton Saints v Bath Rugby
Fri 3rd Oct 14 19:45  Bath Rugby v Saracens
Sun 12th Oct 14 14:00 Wasps v Bath Rugby
Sat 15th Nov 14 15:00 Bath Rugby v Newcastle Falcons
Sat 22nd Nov 14 15:00 London Irish v Bath Rugby
Sat 29th Nov 14 15:00 Bath Rugby v Harlequins
Sat 20th Dec 14 15:00 Gloucester Rugby v Bath Rugby
Sat 27th Dec 14 15:00 Bath Rugby v Exeter Chiefs
Sat 3rd Jan 15 15:00 Leicester Tigers v Bath Rugby
Sat 10th Jan 15 15:00 Bath Rugby v Wasps
Sun 15th Feb 15 15:00 Saracens v Bath Rugby
Sat 21st Feb 15 15:00 Bath Rugby v Northampton Saints
Sat 28th Feb 15 15:00 Exeter Chiefs v Bath Rugby
Sat 7th Mar 15 15:00 Bath Rugby v Sale Sharks
Sun 29th Mar 15 14:30 London Welsh v Bath Rugby
Sun 12th Apr 15 15:00 Newcastle Falcons v Bath Rugby
Sat 25th Apr 15 15:00 Bath Rugby v London Irish
Sat 9th May 15 15:00 Harlequins v Bath Rugby
16/17 May Bath Rugby v Gloucester Rugby
 
 
http://www.bathrugby.com/

Amazing result. Great performance by bath! Several players raised their hands today.

WOW

It really pains me to say this but that was a joy to watch. Every facet of your game was excellent

I'm going to scrub myself clean now

Just brilliant. A few hands being raised for international selection I think...

We were dreadful from minute 1 to minute 80.

I know we were missing players through injury but that is still no excuse for that performance. Just plain awful. That was actually more painful to watch than when Cockers picked an acadamy based team to go to Saracens last year!

1 week ban for Mélé
Better than nothing I guess.

When Garvey comes back...how do you fit him, Fearns, Houston etc all in.

Will you rotate, or will Garvey move to lock?

How has Garvey not been an England regular...even a squad regular?

Is Fearns better or Garvey at that 6 spot?

Geordie

Rotate me thinks, Ferns has really upped his game from what I've seen of him this year but I think there has always been the option of moving Garvey to 2nd row.

If you want to be a top 4 team you have to have lots of depth or be really lucky with injuries these days, I’m just happy we have these guys all playing well and causing the coaches selection headaches

There's seems to be some chat that Garvey fell out with Lancaster in a Saxons game and hasn't spoken since. Great for us, as he was our player of the year last year.

Our first choice backrow remains

6 Garvey
7 Louw
8 Houston

With Fearns able to rotate in any of those positions. Its so important to have depth in this area, as Louw is away with SA and Fearns often injured (picked one up on the weekend)

With Hooper only signing a 1 year deal for this year and Garvey playing at lock in pre season, I wonder if the long term plan will be to have him there with Attwood (now theres some grunt!) and then a backrow of Louw, Burgess and one of Houston/Fearns.

Fearns never seems to have much luck, he started the season really well and is now out for a couple of months.

Ive always been a massive Garvey fan...he would be my England 6 if I was in charge I think.

Do you think Attwood is finally starting to use his size? England could use him smashing thing left right and centre both with and without the ball.

Attwood has been incredible this season so far. If he isn't at least on the bench in the next England game i'll be really suprised

I've lost track a bit, can someone tell me what Louw's current injury status is? How long will he be out for?

I think Louw was out for 8 weeks? So he will be back after the AI's. In fact probably back when he would have reappeared after SA duty anyway.

Attwood has started the season with a real bang, I think Lancaster's policy of delaying the EPS is really paying dividends.

Sam burgess fractures cheekbone in NRL final.

I'll admit I still don't know where Burgess will fit in but...

Fractured cheek bone for 80 minutes, 36 tackles, over 225 meters gained and MOM. Absolutely incredible performance and the sort of willpower that can't be coached.

Roll up, roll up for the communal ERCC craic :
https://www.606v2.com/t55999-ercc-pool-4-round-1-glasgow-warriors-v-bath-rugby

Missing for most of November

James
Webber
Wilson/thomas
Attwood

Garvey
Fearns
Louw

Ford
Agulla
Eastmond
Joseph
Rokodunguni

Waaaaa

sirtidychris wrote:Missing for most of November

James
Webber
Wilson/thomas
Attwood

Garvey
Fearns
Louw

Ford
Agulla
Eastmond
Joseph
Rokodunguni

Waaaaa

That's a few. But how does it compare with others? Just for comparison, your last opponents, Glasgow, have 17 players in the Scotland squad, 3 in the Fiji squad, 1 (I think) in the Canada squad, plus about half a dozen medium / long term injuries. So nearly two full teams away!

And Watson rumoured to be signed up to EPS this weekend as injury replacemnet

Team's up

Bath Rugby team to face Toulouse

15. Anthony Watson
14. Semesa Rokoduguni
13. Jonathan Joseph
12. Ollie Devoto
11. Horacio Agulla
10. George Ford
9. Chris Cook
1. Paul James
2. Rob Webber
3. David Wilson
4. Stuart Hooper
5. Dave Attwood
6. Dominic Day
7. David Sisi
8. Charlie Ewels

Replacements

16. Ross Batty
17. Nathan Catt
18. Henry Thomas
19. Tom Ellis
20. Guy Mercer
21. Peter Stringer
22. Gavin Henson
23. Olly Woodburn

Very good looking backline and great to see Agulla, Roko and Watson all start, that back three will threaten all day. We are out of backrow forwards and it doesnt say much for mercer that he can't get a starting spot with Alfie, Fearns, Louw, Garvey and Leroy all out of contention (maybe he has knock and there is no one else to warm pine). As it is with two locks in the backrow, we will get smashed at the old breakdown (dustatoir, Harydoorknocky and bloomin Picamoles as comp). On a pub quiz plus side i reckon thats the tallest pack in the history of bath rugby so plenty of options for Webber to throw at and our front row is big, angry and rested compared to last week and we are at home against a travelling french team to who knows !!!!!!!

That back row is going to be completely outclassed, which means its unlikely our backs will get into the game at all. I'm struggling to see past a hefty loss here.

Will be interesting to see the Flood vs Ford match up.

Argh, so close! I admit I was wrong, the makeshift back row did well, on another day we could have got a penalty at the end there and snuck a win. Probably the end of the tournament for us realistically, Toulouse just had a lot of quality on the bench and that's the real difference between the big French sides and the rest.

great match. totally enthralling.

agree. on another day he might have awarded a pen against toulouse at the death there for clearly wrapping up the ball carrier and not rolling away.

what a great match though. toulouse have some giants in their pack.

Glasgow's group to lose!

GlasgowFrance's group, Toulouse!

The Saint wrote:Glasgow's group to lose!

If we don't get at least 2 of our first choice props back, that's exactly what's going to happen!

Interesting possibility (after RWC 2015, I guess).

On Tuesday, Wallaby scrum-half Will Genia indicated his interest in joining Burgess at Bath. ‘Obviously the chance to possibly play with someone as special a player like that is definitely appealing,’ Genia said.

‘You saw the type of character he was in that NRL grand final. You always want to play with guys who are inspirational and make such an impact.’

I heard that Genia was less keen to move abroad since the departure of McKenzie. We will see I guess, would be a serious chunk of cap used to keep the French clubs at bay.

I think it woud be great if an AP club could get Genia. Bath were certainly be a more formidable prospect with Genia.

beshocked wrote:I think it woud be great if an AP club could get Genia. Bath were certainly be a more formidable prospect with Genia.

As would any team, what an inane comment

More importantly.....

Burgess has arrived!

https://twitter.com/bathrugby/status/527766502905487361

Hasnt the Genia post RWC rumor been around for a while?

lostinwales wrote:Hasnt the Genia post RWC rumor been around for a while?

Yep. The news news is that he seems to have changed his mind now that the Aus coach has changed and it doens't look like so much of a certainty

Bathite wrote:

beshocked wrote:I think it woud be great if an AP club could get Genia. Bath were certainly be a more formidable prospect with Genia.

As would any team, what an inane comment

Bathite sigh.... and yours isn't?

Say something constructive please. What's wrong with saying that I think it would be great if an AP club got Genia? Want to see as many quality players in the AP as possible.

Bathite wrote:More importantly.....

Burgess has arrived!

https://twitter.com/bathrugby/status/527766502905487361

I wish they had him standing next to Eastmond as a comparison!

Black boots too, good man.

Can't wait to see him run out for Bath, after all the hype it'll be interesting to see how he goes.

beshocked wrote:

Bathite wrote:

beshocked wrote:I think it woud be great if an AP club could get Genia. Bath were certainly be a more formidable prospect with Genia.

As would any team, what an inane comment

Bathite sigh.... and yours isn't?

Say something constructive please. What's wrong with saying that I think it would be great if an AP club got Genia? Want to see as many quality players in the AP as possible.

Sorry, caught me in a bad mood. I apologise, it was unneccessary.

Cook has been playing briliantly this year, it is great to see him deliver on his early promise

Genia will go to france, we do need a scrum half and fullback for next year however. So excited by Burgess, he will have some competition on his hands however with eastmond/devoto.

I apologise also. I just think it would be good to see Genia in the AP. Whether it's Bath or another side. Some sides like Quins,Leicester and Saints wouldn't need him but I can think of others which could.

Cook is inexperienced though and Stringer is getting on.

I think Genia's experience would really help.

sirtidychris which club though?

Is burgess definitely going to be a centre then?

cant wait to see Burgess playing Union.

jason robinson made it into the England squad in less than 12 months. And he is backing Burgess to do the same.

great signing for you guys.

quinsforever wrote:cant wait to see Burgess playing Union.

jason robinson made it into the England squad in less than 12 months. And he is backing Burgess to do the same.

great signing for you guys.

You do know that whatever we might think and hope he could turn out to be useless?

I highly doubt he's going to be useless. He is big, strong and hard as nails. And he's only 25.

Apparently bath are going to play him in several positions initially.

quinsforever wrote:I highly doubt he's going to be useless. He is big, strong and hard as nails. And he's only 25.

Apparently bath are going to play him in several positions initially.

I honestly agree, but the way some people talk him up he sounds like he is going to be the next Stefan Armitage

lostinwales wrote:

quinsforever wrote:I highly doubt he's going to be useless. He is big, strong and hard as nails. And he's only 25.

Apparently bath are going to play him in several positions initially.

I honestly agree, but the way some people talk him up he sounds like he is going to be the next Stefan Armitage

Over rated and can't get into the national team? Time will tell.

tell you what. if bath had gotten armitage on loan all season, and burgess playing from december, i wouldnt have bet against them winning the AP at a canter.

Burgess will likely get the job as prime minister at the next election, beat ISIS singlehandedly develop a universal free clean energy source and most impressive of all he will get the rec development through the Bath planning system...all whilst doing one arm push ups...what guy.

sirtidychris wrote:Burgess will likely get the job as prime minister at the next election, beat ISIS singlehandedly develop a universal free clean energy source and most impressive of all he  will get the rec development through the Bath planning system...all whilst doing one arm push ups...what guy.    

Get real Stefon Armitage has already done that and he round-housed Chuck Norris!