{"id":130601,"date":"2025-05-25T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130601\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T12:14:09","slug":"bath-need-to-ensure-they-find-fifth-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130601\/","title":{"rendered":"Bath need to ensure they find fifth gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeremy Guscott \u2013 Outspoken and unmissable&#8230; every week<\/p>\n<p>Since Bath managed to finish in first place early and qualify for the playoffs with a home semi-final, the only nagging doubt in my mind is if it leads to them playing Bristol Bears, if they finish fourth.<br \/>It doesn\u2019t stem from analytics as much as reading the way that Bath had no answer to Bristol\u2019s all-out attacking strategy at times during their two league games this season.<br \/>Bath have lost only three times this season in the Premiership, with Bristol inflicting two losses, and Northampton the other, when they lost by a point at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jeremy Guscott \u2013 Outspoken and unmissable&#8230; every week Since Bath managed to finish in first place early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[5012,381,748,393,5014,4884,12074,14097,18673,4306,6875,11653,12070,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-130601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bath","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-gloucester","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-harlequins","15":"tag-jeremy-guscott","16":"tag-leicester","17":"tag-leinster","18":"tag-premiership","19":"tag-premium","20":"tag-saracens","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114568420548210260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}