{"id":934672,"date":"2026-05-03T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934672\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:05:17","slug":"ollie-lawrence-bath-have-got-the-tools-to-be-kings-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934672\/","title":{"rendered":"Ollie Lawrence: Bath have got the tools to be kings of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ollie Lawrence reckons it is time for Bath to take things to new heights in today\u2019s Champions Cup semi-final against Bordeaux-Begles.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, head of rugby Johann van Graan\u2019s side won the Prem, Prem Cup and Challenge Cup hat-trick, but it will be a whole different ball game against the holders at Stade Atlantique this afternoon.<br \/>Currently second in the league, Bath have put away Saracens and Northampton Saints in the knockout stages and now face Louis Bielle-Biarrey and his Kings of Europe in their own backyard.<br \/>Whoever wins today\u2019s showdown will take on Leinster in the final on May 23 i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ollie Lawrence reckons it is time for Bath to take things to new heights in today\u2019s Champions Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5012,2383,393,2000,299,5187,1123,36,2199,4306,10327,6875,11653,12070,4209,12071],"class_list":["post-934672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-bath","tag-champions-cup","tag-england","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-featured","tag-france","tag-italy","tag-leinster","tag-northampton-saints","tag-premiership","tag-premium","tag-saracens","tag-six-nations","tag-toulon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116509850389910298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934672","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=934672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}