By Brendan Gallagher

Bath .................................... 38pts

Tries: Cokanasiga 5, Hill 26, Spencer 34, Lawrence 62, Coetzee 77
Conversions: Russell 6, 26, 35, 63, 79
Penalty: Russell 67
Northampton Saints...... 16pts

Try: Kemeny 18
Conversion: Smith 19
Penalties: Smith 32, 53, 61
Most of the bookies and pundits have made Bath Premiership favourites and on this evidence that status appears fully justified.
Five tries to one tells its own story – the Bath attacking machine was functioning at a high level from the off – but it was their ease and composure when not in possession ...