O’Brien ignores form book and expects wild weekend in Bath

SEAN O’BRIEN has dismissed the relevance of Bath’s poor domestic form ahead of their back-to-back Heineken Cup fixtures against Joe Schmidt’s reigning champions.

The English Premiership side sits third from bottom having lost six of their 10 games, the last three in a row to high-flying Harlequins, low-lying Worcester and mid-table Sale.

“It’s a different competition than the Premiership and we have seen before not to underestimate teams that haven’t been playing that well,” O’Brien has warned. “It will be a massively physical challenge for us.