He was up against Shaun Knight in the scrum, Bath’s fifth-choice tight-head and a prop known more for his size and shape than technique. Bath were leading by two Rhys Priestland penalties to one from George Ford, captaining Leicester against the club he left last summer without waving a fond farewell, when the sequence of scrums started. Knight was still in the sin-bin when Bath regained the lead, ironically from a scrum free-kick taken quickly by Taulupe Faletau and finished by Tom Dunn. It was the second time Bath had taken the fixture against Leicester here. “I think he is more bark than bite,” said the Leicester director of rugby, Matt O’Connor, who rated his side’s second-half display as their best of the season.

Source: The Guardian April 07, 2018 15:36 UTC