Premiership team-by-team previews: Bath
Bath finished last season with four consecutive victories, their best run for three years. They scored 175 points and 24 tries to claim the Premiership’s final place in the European Champions Cup, no insignificant achievement for a side that had lost its first six matches. It was Johann van Graan’s first season in charge and the South African gradually turned a team that had become used to losing into one that can approach the new season with, for the first time in a while, optimism.
Bath have in the past had a high turnover in the close season, but t...