Revamped Bath won’t be blown away this time, warns Francois Louw

You could forgive Francois Louw if his last trip to Leinster caused him to wonder whether he had made a mistake in moving to Bath.

Just two months after appearing for South Africa in the 2011 World Cup quarter-final against Australia, Louw was a member of a Bath pack beaten up by their Leinster counterparts and then punished in full by Johnny Sexton and Luke Fitzgerald at the Aviva Stadium.

The scoreline 52-27, was brutal, but the manner of it was perhaps even worse. A very distant second in a two-horse race, Bath’s Heineken Cup hopes were exposed as being utterly fanciful.