Bath Rugby's Lowest Point: The Stuart Hooper Era (Video Essay) | Rugby Recitation

"A proud club brought to its knees". The Stuart Hooper Era at Bath Rugby from 2019 to 2022 will be remembered as a dark chapter in the club's history. The decision to appoint Hooper as Director of Rugby, despite his lack of coaching experience, set the stage for a series of disappointments and failures, culminating in a 2021/2022 season that was undeniably the lowest point in Bath Rugby's history. The club had slowly fallen from England's very best of the 1990's and the late amateur era, to a club that would regularly be on the receiving end of 60-plus point hammerings.
So how did this happen? And how much can Stuart Hooper really be blamed?
Sources for quotes used in the video:
'Bath Rugby announce coaching structure': www.bathrugby....
'Revealed: The bitter power struggle at Bath that ended with shock Ed Griffiths exit': www.telegraph....
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