Monday Round-Up
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Monday Round-Up
Scarlets interested in Halfpenny
Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac says he would be interested in talking to full-back Leigh Halfpenny "if he is serious" about returning to Wales.
Halfpenny's contract at Toulon ends in summer 2016, with Cardiff Blues reported to be interested in re-signing the player.
The 26-year-old left the Blues for France in the summer of 2014.
"He's no different to anyone else. If he is serious about returning we'd be interested to talk to him," said Pivac.
"We don't have an endless budget, but I've said it earlier and nothing has changed.
"If there's any returning Welsh players we'd like to have the opportunity to talk to them just to check what's going on in the market-place and find out their value."
Cockerill proud of Leicester side
Leicester won their 10th game in a row at Welford Road to move up to 3rd in the Aviva Premiership table, with coach Richard Cockerill proud of his sides dogged effort.
"We showed guts to dig ourselves out of a hole, there were a lot of things that we did poorly," he said.
"But with a good old-fashioned bit of spirit we got ourselves to the finish line.
"Bath dominated for large parts, the set-piece was a complete mess for both sides and in poor conditions we managed to find a way to win which is encouraging.
"The boys rallied around, the attitude and the way that we galvanised together to keep Bath out who were dangerous and played well – they will be disappointed to be going home with nothing – but fair play to Leicester. The boys worked hard and deserved it."
For Bath, defeat means they stay eighth in the league table with only two wins from their first five games.
And after levelling the game up halfway through the second half, and with a man advantage due to Slater's yellow card, Mike Ford was disappointed not to win the game – let alone leave Welford Road empty-handed.
"We were good enough to win, I thought we did well in the first half and were playing some decent football," he said.
"We were behind in the scoreboard, the interception try was a turning point but we got back to 11-11 and had a lot of opportunities to go in front and we didn't take them.
"Fair play to Leicester, they do what they do and got us into an arm wrestle late on in the game. We gave away a few penalties.
"We are disappointed to come away with nothing, I thought we were good enough to win at times but we will go back and re-group now.
"We are massively disappointed with the loss but it's a long season and we have got plenty more games to go at."
Dan Hayes
