{"id":643767,"date":"2026-06-17T15:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643767\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:51:22","slug":"immanuel-feyi-waboso-henry-pollock-and-santi-carreras-in-prem-talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643767\/","title":{"rendered":"Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, Henry Pollock and Santi Carreras in Prem talking points"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s important to remember that Finn Russell doesn’t like dropping goals either.<\/p>\n

Bath’s first-choice fly-half famously prefers keeping ball in hand, having landed only one in open play in his entire playing career.<\/p>\n

That one though came at the exact place that Santi Carreras, standing in for the injured Russell, turned down a string of opportunities at the death in the 27-26 defeat by Exeter<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Back in March 2024, in the shadow of the south stand, Russell doubled back to flop over an ugly-looking dropper on the way to victory over Sale. Typically, he did it with his weaker left foot., external<\/a><\/p>\n

Carreras was at even closer range. A monster four-and-half-minute 40-phase passage of play had taken the hosts to within inches of the line. Carreras could have stepped back deep into the pocket and still had a straightforward, central pot at goal.<\/p>\n

Instead, Bath backed their forward power to overwhelm Exeter’s cussed goalline stand. Vilikesa ‘Billy’ Sela did eventually get over – but crucially not down. Held up over the whitewash by a combination of Olly Woodburn and Zack Wimbush, it marked the end of a remarkable match, the culmination of an almighty comeback and the start of some wild celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s important to remember that Finn Russell doesn’t like dropping goals either. Bath’s first-choice fly-half famously prefers keeping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643767","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=643767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}