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Sam Underhill withdrawn by Bath just an hour before game
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Bath Rugby have made a late change to their line-up to face Leicester Tigers this afternoon.
Francois Louw replaces Sam Underhill - who has been hit by an illness - at openside flanker, with Jack Walker named as a replacement.
Louw makes his return to action, with the South African international originally named among the replacements for the final round of the Gallagher Premiership season.
Anthony Watson is set to mark his 100th appearance for Bath Rugby against Leicester Tigers at Welford Road on Saturday, kick-off at 4pm.
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Watson starts his position at full-back, with Joe Cokanasiga and Ruaridh McConnochie completing the back three for the final game of the regular Gallagher Premiership season. Max Wright comes in at inside centre and forms a midfield pairing with Jonathan Joseph. Will Chudley and Freddie Burns continue in the half-back pairing.
Beno Obano and Max Lahiff line-up either side of Tom Dunn in the front row, with Charlie Ewels leading the side from the second row. After a physical display as a replacement in the victory against Wasps in the last round, Levi Douglas starts alongside Ewels. Tom Ellis takes his place at blindside and Zach Mercer completes the pack at number eight.
Bath Rugby team to face Leicester Tigers
15. Anthony Watson
14. Joe Cokanasiga
13. Jonathan Joseph
12. Max Wright
11. Ruaridh McConnochie
10. Freddie Burns
9. Will Chudley
1. Beno Obano
2. Tom Dunn
3. Max Lahiff
4. Levi Douglas
5. Charlie Ewels (c)
6. Tom Ellis
7. Francois Louw
8. Zach Mercer
Replacements
16. Ross Batty
17. Jacques van Rooyen
18. Sam Nixon
19. Elliott Stooke
20. Jack Walker
21. Kahn Fotuali’i
22. Rhys Priestland
23. Semesa Rokoduguni
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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