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Hooper banking on true Bath men to bring back glory days

JON NEWCOMBE finds his boyhood club are moving back to their roots of growing local talent

AS a club with an illustrious past playing in the heart of a World Heritage site and an owner with a big cheque book, Bath has always attracted players from far and wide.
Even during their golden decade in the amateur era which delivered six league titles and ten cups, few of the key players originally came from the confines of the Roman City. The great John Hall of Oldfield and apprentice bricklayer Jerry Guscott were the exceptions rather than the rule.
Lancastrian John Horton pulled the strings at ...

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