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ANTHONY Watson’s 74 minutes at full-back for Bath in their 6-3 loss to Sale at the AJ Bell on Friday night was a positive result in the sense that one of English rugby’s brightest attacking talents came through unscathed after 13 months out with an Achilles injury.
Whether the home fans who braved the wind and rain to watch the Premiership’s lowest scoring game of the season were similarly unscathed is debatable. Their consolation was seeing Sale leapfrog Bath to go sixth in the Premiership table, and into European Cup quali...