After confirmation that Finn Russell has suffered a “significant” groin injury, his season hangs in the balance — which could have significant repercussions for Bath’s Gallagher Premiership title challenge.
It is a tantalisingly tight league campaign: five points separate Harlequins in fourth and Sale Sharks in eighth. Eight of the ten Premiership clubs are still in contention for the play-offs with four regular-season rounds to play, so this could be catastrophic news for Bath.
They sit in second, with sixth-placed Exeter Chiefs, third-placed Saracens and the table-toppers Northampton Saints left to play, as well as the bottom club Newcastle Falcons. Russell, the 31-year-old Scotland fly half, has been a sensation since he joined Bath after last year’s World Cup, giving hope to their supporters he
