Bath 13 Northampton 21, match report: Saints extend winning run at Recreation Ground to go nine points clear
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The hex continues.
For four long years Bath have failed to beat Northampton,
and that run was extended here as the champions and leaders ground out a
highly significant victory over the second-placed pretenders.
It was a surprise, simply because when you viewed the teams on paper
beforehand, with all the internationals missing, Bath looked the stronger,
especially up front.
You expected Bath to make that count – and when they were looking in control
in the first half, with their scrummage obviously superior, it looked as if
that might happen.
However, Northampt…