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Video: The brave finish from Tom de Glanville that has left him sweating with a neck injury

(Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

Tom de Glanville has quickly shown a penchant for scoring Gallagher Premiership tries, the Bath 20-year-old pouncing for his second five-pointer in consecutive games when he struck at Franklin’s Gardens on Wednesday night.

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A son of former England captain Phil, who won a load of trophies with Bath in their 1990s heyday, Tom stepped up from the club’s academy in June to sign his first senior contract and his post-lockdown impact has been exceptional in firing Stuart Hooper’s into the Premiership play-offs positions.

Appearing off the bench in the league last Saturday at Welford Road, he was intuitively on Josh Matavesi’s shoulder to score after the out-half executed an outrageous dummy on halfway that ripped apart the Leicester cover.

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He then started for the first time in the Premiership in midweek, Bath returning to East Midlands to add the scalp of Northampton to the one comfortably taken at Leicester just days earlier.

In a tight contest, the intervention of de Glanville around the hour mark was crucial in helping Bath along to their deserved 18-3 win. However, there was a price to be paid for his courage in gunning for the corner to score.

He copped a double hit in the act of scoring, the second contact coming high around the neck from the arm of Rory Hutchinson, and it left him departing the pitch immediatedly for treatment.

Speaking in the aftermath of the win, Bath boss Hooper said about his England U20 graduate: “We are making sure we look after Tom the best we can. He took a hit, and credit to him for scoring the try. But thoughts are with him at the moment.”

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An update is now awaited from the club as to the full extent of the injury but Bath can take pride in the determination shown by de Glanville in ensuring he remained in play and cleanly got the touch down for the game’s decisive try, an outcome that gave his club just their second league win at Franklin’s since 2000.

 

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More indecision and excuses from Razor.


You've given a spot at 6 to Finau whom you haven't even had the courage to use off the bench in the last two games. Now the young enforcer is going into a big much with no rugby, we should expect a similar result to how Aumua struggled to impact a game after he'd hardly been given any chances of the bench either.


Weve now dropped a back three player who also wasn't even given any game time off the bench for someone coming in cold when they really need to have been playing constantly to perform at their best. There are just so many better pictures that should have been present rather than this mickey mouse selection.


I really hope Finau can overcome this, it won't be the first time he's had to. How is the bench even made up? Could you not just have included these changes in the article as well? I actually like BB coming back in, it highlights how courageous he is after sitting out through another concussion that could just as easily sent him back into months of symptoms again.


Dmac was also off his game last week, as was Ratima, with the poor platform Razor and his team have been setting the players up with. He needs to freedom to clear his mind from the clutter that saw him make so many bad decisions last week. It will still probably be a net loss for the team performance not having him on from the start but it should be better for them in the long run if he's allowed to just come on late and play his game trying to claw things back for the team.


With Roigard starting that might prove an outlet for the team to actually get on top first however. Along with Ardie busting a gut in his new role and emptying the tank by halftime, and being replaced by another new star, might mean that Dmac is just icing on the cake at the end.

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