Why did they not go for a drop goal was the question asked of Bath last weekend, and probably by themselves, after taking play through 43 phases near Exeter Chiefs’ line when they were a point down in the final minutes of the play-off semi-final.

They kept pummelling away either side of the posts as Santi Carreras, filling in at outside-half for the injured Finn Russell, at times put himself in a position to drop what would have been a match-winning goal.
The Argentinian was playing his 204th match in senior rugby and he had never landed one.
Bath have only dropped one goal in the Johann van ...