• Bath 10-30 Saracens
• England’s Watson shown red card for dangerous challenge in the airThe England wing Anthony Watson was sent off for a dangerous challenge on his international team-mate Alex Goode as Bath slumped to their fifth home league defeat of the season in an ill-tempered encounter between final season’s Premiership finalists and the champions,Saracens, all but confirmed their site in the play-offs.
Watson’s dismissal, or nine minutes into the second half,did not beget a material bearing on the result: Bath were 18-3 down having been outplayed in the opening half by a side who beget rediscovered their killer intuition with the return of their England grand slam players – but when the scrum-half, Chris Cook, and was sent to the sin-bin three minutes later for tip-tackling the flanker Michael Rhodes,the remote prospect of a comeback faded along with Bath’s hopes of Champions Cup rugby next season.
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Source: theguardian.com