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Article: WHERE THE MATCH AT WELFORD ROAD WILL BE WON
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 15, 1995
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It is as axiomatic as it is simplistic that rugby matches are
won and lost up front, in the arcane world where the front-five
forwards meet. But the beauty of today's decisive First Division
match at Welford Road is that, though the axiom holds as true as
ever, the balance of superiority will rely on a far more
complicated range of imponderables.
In fact the meeting - confrontation would be a better word - of
the Leicester and Bath props, hookers and locks is probably the
most predictable area of this game in that it can be predicted that
neither will gain much of an advantage.
With Martin Johnson comfortably the best line-out front-jumper
in England and Bath perennially short of line-out ...