The West Country giants currently have six titles to their name – the same as Saracens and Wasps – but are still five short of the most successful team, Leicester Tigers, who won their 11th crown in 2022.
Twenty-eight years after their last Premiership title, Bath tread a path to HQ once so familiar.
The piratical hooker has been at the coalface through a turbulent 12 years and wants to leave a tangible legacy.
After so long in the doldrums, a 'well-balanced' Bath side look 'in reasonable shape' for a tilt at honours
It's a weird coincidence not lost on Andy Nicol, the Bath Heineken Cup-winning captain. Not since that fateful January 1998 day in Bordeaux when he led the English club to European glory had he set foot in the French city...
England and Wales arrive at Twickenham on Sunday for the opening Rugby World Cup warm-up game having followed intensive training programmes dictated by cutting edge sports science.