{"id":175426,"date":"2025-06-11T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175426\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:38:09","slug":"finn-russell-bath-fly-half-says-team-can-achieve-something-special-in-premiership-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175426\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn Russell: Bath fly-half says team can &#8216;achieve something special&#8217; in Premiership final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bath fly-half Finn Russell said the team are going in the right direction to &#8220;achieve something special&#8221; ahead of the Premiership final on Saturday against Leicester Tigers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bath are aiming to win their first league title for 29 years after finishing top of the table by 11 points, while they are also chasing a treble having already clinched domestic and European honours this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russell, who joined the club in 2023, was part of the squad that lost to Northampton Saints by four points in last season&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I came here to win things, as a group we&#8217;re going in the right direction to hopefully achieve something special here,&#8221; Russell told BBC Radio Bristol. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of my goals coming to Bath was to win some stuff, as it is for probably all of the players here. I think we&#8217;ve almost got back to where we wanted to be but hopefully go one step further this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bath fly-half Finn Russell said the team are going in the right direction to &#8220;achieve something special&#8221; ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-175426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114664302391600199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175426","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=175426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}