Jim Hamilton
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And Northampton are starting to be on the back foot.
It's an accumulation of penalties.
It was not just a one-off penalty, isn't it?
But he's had to make a big call there.
And I thought he had a brilliant game.
He did.
Yeah, and if you were to show people a game of rugby or a club game of rugby in England, I know it was the Champions Cup, right?
You've got two traditional clubs.
Both have been up, both have been down.
Well, Northampton have been down, but Bath have been low as a club as well.
And you look at the two stadiums, you look at the squad, you look at the English talent that they're bringing through.
You look at the coaches that are involved in both setups.
You know, we're going to be wax lyrical about Toulouse and Bordeaux like we are around the top 14 and the commerciality around it.
If you can't sell that game, Bath Northampton, whether or not it's Champions Cup, whether or not it's Prem, Prem Cup, Challenge Cup, Rugby, whatever way you look at it,
then you can't do your job.
Because that, as a spectacle, a sold-out stadium, you look at the demographic of the crowd, they're young, old.
Yeah, I'm with you, Biggs.
I just thought it was a brilliant showcase for Rugby Union.
In this game, when I watched it, there was nothing around it that felt quarterfinal of a Champions Cup game.
No.