'Best is yet to come' for treble winners

Head of rugby Johann van Graan promised 'the best is yet to come' for Bath Rugby after the South African's master-plan delivered the Gallagher Premiership title on Saturday to complete a remarkable treble.

- John Evely

This season, having been beaten in last season's league final, the records and history books have been re-written as Bath ended a 29-year wait for a Premiership title with a 23-21 triumph over Leicester at Allianz Stadium Twickenham, to add to the Premiership Rugby Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup already in the club's trophy cabinet.

While the final may arguably have been one of Bath's least impressive performances of the season, van Graan's achievement of taking Bath from the basement club to champions in three years marks him out as one of the leading coaches in the world.

And having signed a contract through to 2030, his thoughts are on creating a new golden era for one of the great clubs of English rugby.

He said: "The day you stand still is the day somebody catches you. You must always train like number two because the other guys are coming.

"We will look at ourselves and go again. As I said from the start, this is a journey, there is no endpoint in this.