Snubbed Wilson Shows Eddie What He's Missing
MARK Wilson climbed off his sick bed to bag the winning try for Newcastle at the end of a pulsating contest that will give the respective defence coaches nightmares for weeks.
Having seen an early 19-0 advantage evaporate when Bath roared back to lead by 13 points as a rollercoaster affair entered its closing stages, Chris Harris reduced the arrears before Wilson’s close-range plunge, converted by Joel Hodgson, lifted brave Falcons into second place.
Newcastle, hammered 58-5 on this ground a year ago, look a different beast now and additional tries from Sona Takulua, Rob Vickers and DTH van der Merwe proved too much to handle for a Bath side who betrayed a disturbingly soft underbelly.
Flanker Wilson, who starred on England’s summer tour but was omitted from this week’s training squad, said: “I’ve had bad guts all week and was feeling horrendous, so to get through 80 minutes was great and at the end I just finished off a lot of good work from the boys.
“Previously we’ve got to 60 minutes in games like these and crumbled but we showed a bit of character, dug deep and got a really good result.”
Harris’ knock-on halted Newcastle’s first attack but the visitors soon struck when Santiago Socino broke Elliott Stooke’s tackle before putting Takulua under the sticks.
This story is from the September 24, 2017 edition of The Rugby Paper.
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