■By BEN JAYCOCK

HARLEQUINS hoped to wipe the slate clean following a torrid 2025/26 but it was more of the same on Friday night as Bath, inspired by a Santiago Carreras wonder try, triumphed at The Stoop.
The visitors wrapped up the bonus point before half-time with the Londoners overpowered by a Bath pack who don’t appear to be missing Thomas du Toit for now.
A further try from their formidable driving maul in the second half powered the Blue, Black and Whites comfortably past a Quins team missing a handful of first team regulars through injury including Marcus Smit...