South Africa’s Johann van Graan is a treble winner with Bath. The Bath coach and former Bulls and Springboks assistant coach’s team, edged Springbok Handre Pollard’s Leicester 23-21 in the Gallagher Premiership final at the Allianz Stadium at Twickenham.
This was a match up of the league’s first placed team (Bath) against the second placed (Leicester) and less than a penalty three pointer separated them at the end.
Two-times Springboks World Cup winner Pollard, in his final match for Leinster, kicked three conversions, but it was another Springbok, prop Thomas du Toit, the scorer of a try in the final, who smiled biggest at Twickenham.
Van Graan, who has led the Bath revival,…
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