Swift bamboozled by Banahan’s departure

CLUB record try-scorer Tony Swift admits he was as puzzled as anyone when he found out fellow Bath legend Matt Banahan was leaving the club for Gloucester this summer.
Banahan bowed out in the blue, black and white with a hat-trick in last week’s rout of London Irish, to bring up a century of tries in his 264th and final game for the club.
Swift, who touched down 161 times in 242 following his arrival at the Rec from Swansea in the mid-80s, said: “He has scored a lot of tries in what is quite a difficult environment and has done a cracking job over a long period of time.
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