Bath’s Sam Burgess in Saxons reckoning after excelling against Wasps
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• Sam Burgess ‘gets monkey off my back’ with first Premiership try• Bath hang on despite Wasps’ strong second-half revivalEleven days before Stuart Lancaster announces his squad for the Six Nations, Sam Burgess, Bath’s expensive signing from rugby league, finally showed what the fuss and the spending is all about. Six games in, he suddenly seems at ease in his new career.As his head coach at Bath, Mike Ford, made clear later, Burgess is still very much a work in progress and if an immediate England place is fanciful, playing a part when the second-string Saxons take on Ireland Wolfhounds seven…





