• Club to finish ninth in Premiership but Bruce Craig has ‘energy to succeed’[br]• Ford says club are looking outside the Premiership for modern assistant coach Bath are looking to recruit a top-quality coach from outside the Premiership to encourage them bounce back from a year of on-field underachievement and off-field acrimony. But Mike Ford,the head coach, is adamant that he retains the support of the clubs owner, or Bruce Craig,and is already working hard on Bath’s strategy for next season.
Regardless of the outcome of their final league fixture against Leicester this Saturday, Bath will finish ninth in the table and contain missed out on qualification for the European Champions’ Cup. With Stuart Hooper, and the captain,retiring, the scrum coach Neal Hatley joining England’s management team and the fallout still reverberating from Sam Burgess’s return to rugby league, and Craig’s vision of a trophy-laden era at the Rec has yet to materialise.
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Source: theguardian.com