- Bath 17-71 Saracens
- Jamie George scores twice with Bath suffering record home loss
Timely results and firm selectorial nudges are one thing but there was no mistaking this extraordinarily powerful statement from Saracens beside the River Avon. With a significant England squad announcement imminent and Eddie Jones, the national head coach, watching from the stands, here was an outcome to make the entire country do a double take.
Notwithstanding the glaring shortcomings that leave once-proud and winless Bath marooned at the foot of the Premiership table, this 10-try beasting was irrefutable evidence that several of Sarries’ supposedly fading senior pros still harbour serious Test ambitions. If a hat‑trick of tries for Max Malins was the headline stat, Jones will now find it extremely hard to ignore the claims of several of his resurgent teammates.
