Business as usual for Mike Ford after lessons learnt from final agony

Bath 47 Leicester Tigers 10
The Bath players will drive up the familiar, winding private road to their Farleigh House training base this morning, park their cars next to the 19th-century Gothic mansion, as they always do, and go about their review session as if it was any other Monday in the season.

Business as usual.

The club may be preparing for their first Aviva Premiership final in 11 years, and the footage on the screen will be from Saturday’s semi-final demolition of Leicester Tigers, but nothing will change in their routine this week.

Mike Ford has learnt that lesson the hard way.…