Summary

  • More than 130,000 spectators attend two matches at Twickenham and Wembley

  • Exeter and Saracens secure play-off spots with wins

  • FT: Saracens 40-19 Harlequins at Wembley

  • FT: Exeter 38-34 Bristol

  • FT: Bath 27-21 Leicester at Twickenham

  1. Postpublished at 14:28 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 7-12 Leicester

    A bit of kicking tennis between the two teams results in a Bath line-out inside the Leicester half.

    15 minutes in and one or two players blowing hard. It is an energy-sapping afternoon in the West London sunshine.

  2. try

    Try (Joseph, con Ford)published at 14:24 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 7-12 Leicester

    JJImage source, Getty Images

    What was I just saying about Bath not being in Leicester territory?

    The home side hit a couple of beautiful lines with excellent work by Anthony Watson and Matt Banahan - the ball comes out to George Ford who delays a pass to allow Jonathan Joseph a stroll to the line.

    Two more from Ford and the start of a comeback is on.

  3. try

    Try (Joseph)published at 14:23 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 5-12 Leicester

  4. Tigers silence Bath supportpublished at 14:22 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 0-12 Leicester

    Chris Jones
    BBC Radio 5 live rugby reporter at Twickenham

    "The vast majority of the 60,000 fans here are Bath supporters, so the atmosphere is a little muted after those two Tigers tries.

    "Bath have played most of the rugby, but Leicester have been ruthless in taking their chances, and are in control."

    Brendon O'Connor try for TigersImage source, Getty Images
  5. Postpublished at 14:20 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 0-12 Leicester

    Despite being two tries down, Bath appear to have had much more of the ball in the opening stages but they've been indecisive going forward against a well drilled Tigers defence.

    They're yet to get anywhere near the Leicester 22 with ball in hand.

  6. Postpublished at 14:17 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 0-12 Leicester

    Matt O'ConnorImage source, PA

    In all the Twickenham and top four build-up talk, it has been slightly lost that Liecester have a new man in charge today in Matt O'Connor who has replaced Aaron Mauger.

    The Australian is back for his second spell at the Tigers.

    New coach bounce anyone?

  7. Delay at Sandy Parkpublished at 14:15 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Exeter v Bristol (15:15 BST)

    An update to the earlier traffic announcement relating to the second Premiership game today.

    At the earliest, that match will now kick-off at 15:15 BST. But could be even later, depending when Bristol arrive.

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  8. try

    Try (Veainu, missed con)published at 14:14 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 0-12 Leicester

    VeaniuImage source, PA

    After the ball is turned over from a Jonathan Joseph drive, Telusa Veaniu spots no full-back at home and kicks ahead.

    The Tongan full-back has the pace to out gas the chasing defender and just gets there before the ball goes into touch to dot down.

    Great vision. Conversion missed.

  9. try

    Try (Veainu)published at 14:12 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 0-12 Leicester

  10. Traffic alert: Exeter v Bristolpublished at 14:10 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Exeter v Bristol (15:00 BST)

    For those travelling to Sandy Park today, there are a number of traffic alerts to keep in mind as going is slow on the M5 following a collision.

    Rumours of a delay to kick-off but we will confirm if we get any news.

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  11. Live radio commentarypublished at 14:08 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 0-7 Leicester

    Commentary position

    As well as following us here on the live text service you can also listen to the game using the tabs above.

    BBC Somerset and BBC Radio Bristol will be in the Bath corner with BBC Radio Leicester keeping those of a Tigers persuasion up to date.

    Chris Jones will be providing regular updates for those listening to 5 Live's sports offering today,

  12. try

    Try (O'Connor, con Burns)published at 14:07 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 0-7 Leicester

    A lovely first try this for the Tigers.

    Telusa Veainu does well to suck in two defenders out wide and gives the ball out to Brendan O'Connor who has the strength to hold off a defender, and then the skill to side step to dot down.

    Freddie Burns is successful with his first kick of the afternoon.

  13. try

    Try (O'Connor)published at 14:05 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 0-5 Leicester

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  14. Postpublished at 14:03 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 0-0 Leicester

    A couple of kicks for territory not the best from either side as they look to try and get in the opposition's half.

    A knock-on by Leicester means it is the first scrum of the game.

  15. Kick-offpublished at 14:01 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath 0-0 Leicester

    Bath v LeicesterImage source, Getty Images

    After 221 successive home Premiership matches played at the Recreation Ground, Bath move to a new 'home' venue for the first time at Twickenham.

    George Ford gets us going in glorious sunshine.

  16. What a receptionpublished at 13:59 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath v Leicester (14:00 BST)

    Bath players arrive at TwickenhamImage source, Getty Images

    Well, if a picture is worth a thousand words... then this one is worth many thousands as Bath supporters give their players a huge welcome to Twickenham.

  17. Twickenham is good businesspublished at 13:58 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath v Leicester (14:00 BST)

    Chris Jones
    BBC Radio 5 live rugby reporter at Twickenham

    I've been flicking through the programme ahead of 5 live Sport reports and came across this snippet.

    "To help achieve our aim of becoming a self-sustaining business, we must grow the supporter base and that is one of the key reasons for staging this game," says Bath chairman Bruce Craig.

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  18. Leicester team newspublished at 13:56 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath v Leicester (14:00 BST)

    Scrum-half Ben Youngs is set for his 200th Leicester appearance, with Tigers unchanged from their last league match.

    Fly-half Freddie Burns - who will join Bath this summer in exchange for George Ford - will play his 50th Tigers league game.

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    Replacements:  McGuigan, Rizzo, Balmain, Williams, Thacker, White, Williams, Roberts.  

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  19. Bath team newspublished at 13:54 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

    Bath v Leicester (14:00 BST)

    Leicester Tigers-bound England fly-half George Ford returns for Bath for Saturday's Premiership game between the two play-off hopefuls at Twickenham.

    Ford starts as one of five Bath changes as Ben Tapuai, Ross Batty, Elliott Stooke and Francois Louw also come in.

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    Replacements:  Brooker, Obano, Knight, Denton, Mercer, Cook, Priestland, Homer.  

  20. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 13:53 British Summer Time 8 April 2017

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    It's around 100 miles from the Recreation Ground to Twickenham, but Bath fans have given it a home feel with the numbers gathered outside England's HQ.

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