Graan: Simply not good enough

Bath‘s head coach, Johann Van Graan said after his side’s fourth consecutive Premiership defeat: “It’s another loss so I’m not proud of the performance, but I am proud of the reaction to come back.

“It’s incredibly frustrating to concede 35 first-half points and then win the second half 33-12, but we began by losing our first line-out, then two scrums before giving away needless penalties.

“It’s simply not good enough and there are no excuses as we have to learn to play for 80 minutes. You can’t control injuries, but we lost two line-out callers with serious problems which could put them out for months.

“We are looking to bring in some bodies as we’ve had a lot of big injuries in the first three weeks.“You can’t control injuries but we lost our two line-out callers with serious problems which could put them out for months.

“We are looking to bring in some bodies as we’ve had a lot of big injuries in the first three weeks.”

Bath’s captain, Tom Dunn, said: “I’m disappointed and gutted and frankly a bit embarrassed.

“You cannot afford to get into a negative spiral but we are not performing as we should as we didn’t correct the mistakes we made last week as we need to have physicality and energy from ball one.”