TOM BRADSHAW: Curious but cracking start to new Aviva Premiership...
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Three hat-tricks, two drubbings and one monkey removed from Bath Rugby’s back.
The opening round of the Aviva Premiership was predictable in some respects, head-scratchingly curious in others.
Wins for Harlequins, Leicester, Northampton, Saracens, Bath and Exeter were perhaps what a lot of people expected but the manner of some of those results was surprising, even surreal.
Few would have expected London Welsh to concede 50-plus points against the Chiefs at home, while fewer still would have forecast that Gloucester – more sixes-and-than Cherry and Whites on Friday evening – would have ship…
The opening round of the Aviva Premiership was predictable in some respects, head-scratchingly curious in others.
Wins for Harlequins, Leicester, Northampton, Saracens, Bath and Exeter were perhaps what a lot of people expected but the manner of some of those results was surprising, even surreal.
Few would have expected London Welsh to concede 50-plus points against the Chiefs at home, while fewer still would have forecast that Gloucester – more sixes-and-than Cherry and Whites on Friday evening – would have ship…
