By Glen Leat
May 3 2002

After last week's thrashing by Newcastle, Bath have the pleasure of visiting the home of bitter rivals Glawster as the Cherry and Whites continue to enjoy their best season in a very long time. A surprise 12-9 victory in December may help spur Bath on to another unlikely win.

If things were not bad enough for coach Foley and his players, news emerged tonight that Iain Balshaw twisted his ankle in training and so will not play for the rest of the season. With Mike Catt, Matt Perry, Mike Tindall and Kevin Maggs all injured things do not look good for Bath in the back line.

Henry Paul has been drawn back in to the Glaws side against his previous employers and may demonstrate that the Forest Dwellers are not quite as confident as they would lead everyone to be. Paul has hardly been a massive success this season yet he provides the sort of "off the cuff" play that may just upset the talented but confidence drained Bath players.

The Glaws fans will be baying for Bath blood with The Shed in full cry as they see yet another chance to humiliate the old enemy. I think it is very likely that the Bath fans will return home as dejected as they have from most games this season; the main thing has to be to try and scrape a bonus point to ease the burden of relegation (if anyone actually believes there will be relegation this year!).

Click on to the Glawster site for their perspective on things.

Click here to read about the encounter between Bath and Glawster earlier in the year.

In preparation for this clash let's have a look at a few recent statistics:

Biggest Win

Player Greats

(Bath Results First)

Date  Result  Venue Season: 2001-02 08 Dec 2001 12- 9 The Rec Season: 2000-01 24 Feb 2001 50 - 16 The Rec 09 Sep 2000 22 - 21 Kingsholm Season: 1999-00 08 Apr 2000 36 - 16 Kingsholm 10 Oct 1999 33 - 20 The Rec Season: 1998-99 02 Jan 1999 7 - 23 Kingsholm 26 Sep 1998 21 - 16 The Rec Season: 1997-98 18 Apr 1998 17 - 27 Kingsholm 11 Feb 1998 47 - 3 The Rec Season: 1996-97 30 Apr 1997 71 - 21 The Rec 21 Sep 1996 45 - 29 Kingsholm Season: 1995-96 10 Apr 1996 10 - 16 Kingsholm 16 Sep 1995 37 - 11 The Rec Season: 1994-95 04 Mar 1995 19 - 19 The Rec 01 Oct 1994 15 - 10 Kingsholm Season: 1993-94 12 Feb 1994 16 - 6 Kingsholm 02 Oct 1993 46 - 17 The Rec Season: 1992-93 13 Feb 1993 20 - 0 Kingsholm Season: 1991-92 29 Feb 1992 29 - 9 The Rec Season: 1990-91 06 Apr 1991 17 - 15 Kingsholm Season: 1989-90 23 Sep 1989 6 - 13 Kingsholm Season: 1988-89 24 Sep 1988 19 - 9 The Rec Season: 1987-88 30 Nov 1987 16 - 9 Kingsholm