Leicester 11-11 Bathpublished at 16:16 Greenwich Mean Time 29 November 2015
Quote MessageThat's just bad discipline. He doesn't need to do it.
Steve Johnson, BBC Radio Leicester
Watson's touchdown had put Bath ahead
Veainu and Cole scored tries for Tigers
Leicester's Bell kicked three penalties; Bath's Ford kicked two
Bath not won at Welford Road in Premiership since 2003
Matt Newsum
Quote MessageThat's just bad discipline. He doesn't need to do it.
Steve Johnson, BBC Radio Leicester
Leicester 11-11 Bath
You can hear a pin drop as George Ford lines up his kick and it sails through to level up the scores.
Game on under the Welford Road floodlights.
Tigers give away a penalty at the ruck.
George Ford instantly points to the sticks.
Sam Hamilton comes on for Leicester, to take over from Ben Youngs.
Big responsibility for the Tigers scrum-half.
Leicester go across the field from left to right trying to probe a way through but just as they threaten, up pops Leroy Houston for Bath to smuggle the ball on the intercept.
Pendulum swings back the other end of the field, but eventually the move breaks down on the left with Nikola Matawalu forced into touch.
We go back actually.
Nikola Matawalu deemed to have ripped that out of the newly-formed ruck.
Leicester penalty, they go for touch, on the cusp of Bath's 22.
That wind has given George Ford a reason to shake the dust of those boots and start pinning Leicester back.
Long kicking game at every opportunity.
Nikola Matawalu picks the ball off but Bath can't make the most of the play in broken field with a knock-on.
Leicester 11-8 Bath
George Ford, with the wind at his back, has the ball fizzing through the sticks against his old club.
Leicester are penalised at the scrum and Bath will go for goal.
More problems at that set-piece.
Bath have a line-out, and go short to the front and catch Leicester napping.
Matawalu tries to feed Ellis, who charged onto the offload, but they then cough up the ball as it goes back in field.
Tigers scrum.
Enterprising though.
Leicester 11-5 Bath
We're back under way, no relent in the rain.
Leicester in possession.
HT: Leicester 11-5 Bath
Of course, this is game six of six in round five of the Premiership - and it's been a corking weekend of rugby union so far.
Got some catching up to do?...
HT: Leicester 11-5 Bath
And what about that try from Telusa Veainu?! Looked for all the money that Bath were going to exploit the overlap on the right but Veainu had other ideas.
I've not seen such an artful display of pick-pocketing since I was made to watch Oliver on Christmas Eve a few years back.
Fagin would be proud.
HT: Leicester 11-5 Bath
Wowzers, when was the last time you saw rain quite like this? These conditions may not make for flowing rugby but, as Dave Egerton says, it's still good fun to watch.
So which way do you see the second half going? Please do let us know via#bbcrugbyon Twitter.
Two things you're always guaranteed at Welford Road.
A noisy crowd and a tough Tigers pack.
We've had both.
Their intensity is clear to see and, while Bath have fronted-up well, you can see the influence of Mike Williams and Brendon O'Connor with the ball in hand and at the ruck.
Quote MessageYou can't not enjoy rugby when there's wind everywhere and rain everywhere, but you have two teams trying to play.
Dave Egerton, BBC Radio Bristol
Leicester 11-5 Bath
Credit to both sides, they have tried to play rugby in rapidly deteriorating conditions.
When we've not been bogged down in scrum-time gloom, it's been a cracking encounter.
Bath scored first, Leicester hit them on the break and Tommy Bell's boot has been the difference from the tee.
40 more muddy, soggy, bruising minutes to go. Can't wait!
Bath get to within 10 of the line when they concede the penalty.
Leicester smash to touch. It's half-time.
Nikola Matawalu didn't even get chance to feed it.
Leicester kick the penalty downfield but Anthony Watson returns it with interest.
Bath play out the last throes of the half in the Tigers half here.
Can they nick something or will the hosts hold out?
Well as we close in on half-time, the weather has made this a less expansive game.
That said, some of the handling from both sides has been excellent.
Bath have a scrum in the Tigers half.