{"id":173302,"date":"2025-10-01T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/173302\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:35:09","slug":"bath-set-for-much-needed-fly-half-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/173302\/","title":{"rendered":"Bath set for much-needed fly-half boost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bath<\/a> boss Johann van Graan has confirmed that new signing Santiago Carreras<\/a> will report for duty at Farleigh House on Monday, fresh from playing in The Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n

Carreras signed for Bath from Gloucester<\/a> but has yet to play for his new club due to his commitments with the Argentina<\/a> national team.<\/p>\n

With Finn Russell<\/a> serving a mandatory rest period, covering the first two rounds of the PREM season, after his involvement on the Lions<\/a> tour, Bath have been down to the bare bones at 10.<\/p>\n

Ciaran Donoghue, who was earmarked to play fly-half while the two international stars were absent, has undergone surgery after picking up a knee injury in the pre-season friendly against Munster, while Sam Harris<\/a> is still on the comeback trail.<\/p>\n

England<\/a> U18 star James Linegar played fly-half in the PREM Rugby Cup defeat to Exeter and Max Ojomoh<\/a> did a very good job filling in there for the win at Harlequins<\/a> on the opening weekend of the league season. The inside centre is likely to keep the jersey for the visit of Sale Sharks<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Head-to-Head <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Last 5 Meetings<\/p>\n

Average Points scored<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Even so, van Graan will be delighted that, very soon, he will have both Carreras, a class act at full-back as well as fly-half, and the northern hemisphere\u2019s leading 10, Russell, at his disposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the plan, hopefully he is in good shape next weekend, he is certainly in good form,\u201d van Graan said about Russell.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we are looking forward to having Thomas (du Toit) and Santi back in on Monday also.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, as a group we want to spend some time together and Monday coming will be the first time we have been together as a group since the Premiership Final, and all the new signings have been in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carreras has been in red-hot form for Los Pumas<\/a> and is the competition\u2019s leading points scorer with 60 after the first five rounds, with a success rate in front of goal of just over 90%.<\/p>\n

Choosing who\u2019ll be the club\u2019s frontline goalkicker when Carreras and Russell are both on the pitch will be the type of headache van Graan won\u2019t mind having.<\/p>\n

Argentina\u2019s decision to concede home advantage and play their final match against South Africa<\/a> at Twickenham has worked in Bath\u2019s favour, as it means Carreras and Springbok tight-head du Toit will only have a short distance to travel home to the West Country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bath boss Johann van Graan has confirmed that new signing Santiago Carreras will report for duty at Farleigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-173302","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}