Sophie Hurcom

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Sophie Hurcom

Image source, PA MediaImage caption, Sam Underhill was shown yellow for the tackle during Bath's Challenge Cup final win against LyonFlanker Sam Underhill will miss the rest of Bath's season after being given a four-week ban for a dangerous tackle during the club's European Challenge Cup final victory against Lyon. Underhill was shown a yellow card for the head-on-head collision with Lyon full-back Davit Niniashvili in the 26th minute.

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Sophie Hurcom |Steve Kitchen

When the Premiership resumed after a two-month break in March, Gloucester were third in the table. But defeats by Bath and Saracens dropped them out of a tight race at the top and their hopes received a major hit two weeks ago when they were beaten 38-19 by Harlequins to leave their fate out of their hands. "We'd love to be able to have a shot at it, there's always going to be a few results you look at and go 'we could have made life a bit easier'," Skivington said.

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Sophie Hurcom |Dan Albutt

Bristol finished top of the table in 2020 and reached the Twickenham final but went on to suffer a second-half collapse, against Saturday's opponents Harlequins, to lose out on the title. It means they are still chasing a first Premiership trophy. They come into this weekend's match in inconsistent form, with two wins in their past six games stretching back to 22 March. Harlequins are seventh and have little at stake with a play-off finish already out of reach.

1 week ago | au.sports.yahoo.com | Sophie Hurcom

Captain Ben Spencer said it was inevitable Bath would at some point deliver a performance like the one that secured them the European Challenge Cup on Friday. Bath overpowered French Top 14 side Lyon 34-12 to claim their first European trophy in 17 years at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. The Premiership leaders scored four tries and survived an ill-disciplined first half which saw two players sin-binned to comfortably beat their French opponents.

1 week ago | bbc.co.uk | Sophie Hurcom

While Lyon scored first through Ethan Dumortier's try, Bath took the lead with Dunn and Max Ojomoh scores and navigated a tricky end to the first half when they were briefly reduced to 13 players following Sam Underhill and Will Muir's yellow cards. Arno Botha pulled another back for Lyon but Bath ended the night comfortable winners as tries from Beno Obano and Spencer took them out of sight.