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Scotland centre Cameron Redpath to stay at Bath

(Photo by Dan Mullan/The RFU Collection via Getty Images)

Bath has announced that Scotland international Cameron Redpath has signed a contract extension.

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Despite injuries limiting his contributions in the 2021/22 campaign, Redpath has been thriving under Head of Rugby Johann van Graan this season. The news comes just a week after it was confirmed that fellow Scotland international Finn Russell would be swapping Paris for Somerset after signing a purported £1 million a season deal with the Gallagher Premiership side.

“After a difficult couple of years with injury, Cam has shown how exciting a talent he is this season,” van Graan said. “He is fast establishing himself as an international standard centre with Scotland and is a key part of our midfield at Bath. He is always looking to better himself and we are delighted he will continue his progression with us.”

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Redpath joined the club in the summer of 2020 and played a key role in the team’s run to the Gallagher Premiership play-offs. In the following season, he continued to perform well and was called up for the 2021 Six Nations, where he helped Scotland to their first win at Twickenham in 38 years with a player-of-the-match performance.

“I’m grateful for the opportunity to extend my time here at Bath,” said Redpath. “I have absolutely loved every minute here so far and I’m starting to get into a rhythm of games which I’ve lacked over the past few seasons. I love it here; it feels like home. With the players and coaches we have here, I know it’s somewhere I can progress and take my game to a new level. I really want to succeed for the club, my teammates and the supporters, and I can’t wait to see what we can achieve together.”

Redpath is the latest Bath player to commit to the club, following the recent contract extensions of Tom Dunn, Will Stuart, and Sam Underhill.

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GrahamVF 43 minutes ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

"has SA actually EVER helped to develop another union to maturity like NZ has with Japan," yes - Argentina. You obviously don't know the history of Argentinian rugby. SA were touring there on long development tours in the 1950's

We continued the Junior Bok tours to the Argentine through to the early 70's

My coach at Grey High was Giepie Wentzel who toured Argentine as a fly half. He told me about how every Argentinian rugby club has pictures of Van Heerden and Danie Craven on prominent display. Yes we have developed a nation far more than NZ has done for Japan. And BTW Sa players were playing and coaching in Japan long before the Kiwis arrived. Fourie du Preez and many others were playing there 15 years ago.


"Isaac Van Heerden's reputation as an innovative coach had spread to Argentina, and he was invited to Buenos Aires to help the Pumas prepare for their first visit to South Africa in 1965.[1][2] Despite Argentina faring badly in this tour,[2] it was the start of a long and happy relationship between Van Heerden and the Pumas. Izak van Heerden took leave from his teaching post in Durban, relocated to Argentina, learnt fluent Spanish, and would revolutionise Argentine play in the late 1960s, laying the way open for great players such as Hugo Porta.[1][2] Van Heerden virtually invented the "tight loose" form of play, an area in which the Argentines would come to excel, and which would become a hallmark of their playing style. The Pumas repaid the initial debt, by beating the Junior Springboks at Ellis Park, and emerged as one of the better modern rugby nations, thanks largely to the talents of this Durban schoolmaster.[1]"


After the promise made by Junior Springbok manager JF Louw at the end of a 12-game tour to Argentina in 1959 – ‘I will do everything to ensure we invite you to tour our country’ – there were concerns about the strength of Argentinian rugby. South African Rugby Board president Danie Craven sent coach Izak van Heerden to help the Pumas prepare and they repaid the favour by beating the Junior Springboks at Ellis Park.

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