PAUL REES LOOKS AT HOW JOHANN VAN GRAAN HAS TURNED THE WEST COUNTRY SIDE INTO TITLE CHALLENGERS

TWO years after finishing bottom of the Premiership, Bath were a score away from the title. They were on the attack in Northampton’s 22 with time up at Twickenham having played for an hour with 14 men after Beno Obano’s red card for a dangerous tackle, but the move broke down and their long wait for the trophy went on. The defeat hurt, but it also showed why Bath had come a very long way in the two years Johann van Graan had been head coach. The South African joined after the ...