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they will be inhibited by a fi nal at all. When those guys lace up their boots at Twickenham it gives them energy and a real sense of purpose. They will rise to the occasion.

“The advantage we’ve got is that a lot of them have done it during the Six Nations. It is their home pitch.” Saracens, the more conservative, would be expected to try to snuff out the Bath fl ame with their cloying kick- chase game.

But if you believe Mike Ford, those tactics will be right up his side’s street. “We want them to kick the ball to us and we’ll play from there. Seventy fi ve per cent of our training is from there,” he said. Let the mind games and double bluffs begin. Jonathan Joseph. It is quite a supply line and Banahan recognises that. “I’m just fi nishing other boys’ magic midfi eld work,” he said.

Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill, who lost his full- back Niall Morris to a suspected broken ankle, accepted the Tigers have to “evolve”. The arrival of a new

❑ backs’ coach in Aaron DANNY CIPRIANI will start Mauger in the summer at stand- off for England is aimed at developing against the Barbarians on the Tigers’ threat and Sunday after a Six Nations the plan to widen spent mainly on the bench. Welford Road by eight Exeter’s Henry Slade and Luke metres is intended to Cowan- Dickie are also in a give them room to group featuring 10 of England’s move, but ultimately it World Cup training squad. is about players and losing Ford two years ago looks more costly with each passing reunion.

“Players like George, Kyle and JJ see the game quite differently to anybody else I have ever played with,” said Bath captain Stuart Hooper. “They see space well and when they get into that space they are different. They are a nightmare to play against. I don’t think

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