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TODAY will be a reckoning for a Bath pack touted as the most powerful in the Prem when it meets a Bordeaux Begles eight in the European Cup semi-final at the Stade Atlantique Metropole which has been too strong for most English opposition.
So much rests on the shoulders of Bath’s tight-head talisman Thomas du Toit, who has the conditioning and durability to last the full 80, because he could get a crucial advantage at the scrum with the relatively inexperienced Matis Perchaud coming in for Jefferson Poirot, Bordeaux’s banned regu...