Nick Abendanon’s star would be just as bright at Bath

Nick Abendanon, adjudged the European player of the year, would not have been
the player he has been this season had he stayed in Bath.

That is a
perceived wisdom.

Even the full back has credited his transfer to Clermont
Auvergne for what many observers regard as a staggering transformation in
his fortunes.

I am not so sure.



He could have been equally easy on the eye.

There is a definite, if admittedly
hypothetical, case that had Clermont’s laughing cavalier remained at the
Recreation Ground, English club supporters would have witnessed the same
dizzying brilliance in the bl…