Joseph and Ford aim to repeat flamboyant double-act for Bath

However hard they might try, so often it proves desperately difficult for
international players to raise their game as they would like when they step
back down to club rugby.

The mind may be willing, but the flesh is not
fortified by the same current of adrenaline running through the body.



It can help, though, if the first game back is the biggest of your club
career, as Bath’s European Champions Cup quarter-final away to Leinster is
for Jonathan Joseph today.

The transition can be smoother, too, if one of
your most important relationships remains the same for club and