Bath head coach Johann van Graan didn’t hide from the inadequacy of his side’s defeat to 14-man Sharks.
The South African who took over at The Rec during the summer after moving from Munster, was honest about the size of the task that confronts Bath. “It’s not the performance I was looking for, especially in the first 40 minutes,” he said.
“I felt the second half we improved. We tried to adapt after the red card but we lost the physical battle.
“Accuracy wasn’t good enough but that happens when you are beaten in the collisions. They stayed with eight forwards after the sending off and they a...