Te’o Gold standard as Bath are sunk

WORCESTER boss Gary Gold was in no mood to gloat – despite putting one over a club who give him the elbow and ruining their season.

South African Gold was dumped by Bath in December 2013 without getting a fair crack of the whip but took his revenge yesterday.

The home side were right on it with Ben Te’o (above) doing his Lions chances no harm in front of assistant Rob Howley.

Worcester are now 12 points clear of Bristol at the bottom – and if Bristol lose against Wasps today they are down the gurgler.

But Gold – at Sixways on a temporary deal – will refuse to believe his Warriors are safe until it is a done deal, and knocked back suggestions he had a score to settle with Bath.

Gold said: “It should not be about me and what happened.

“It is satisfying for me because the club asked me to come here in January and see if we could fix things. We have made some progress and that is satisfying.

“It would be unbelievably arrogant to sit here and say we are safe when an unbelievable team like Bristol have two home games out of three.”

Whatever Gold says, it will be unbelievable if Bristol manage to overhaul Worcester.

They hustled Bath all afternoon and came back from 13-6 down on 44 minutes to dominate the second half.

Te’o’s burst to make the second score for Wynand Olivier broke Bath and second row Will Spencer finished it with eight minutes left.

Bath’s top-four chances look remote now and it was a crushing defeat after last week’s win over Leicester.

Director of rugby Todd Blackadder groaned: “Unforced errors just killed us. We knew what was at stake and that is what it makes it more disappointing.”