Today is the last time. All being well, we will be in Bath as residents around Easter. So today, on the way in, I thought I would take a long, hard look at this town and note some of the charm of Watford, some of the little things it's easy to miss and record them here. So ...

Anyway, the game. Two sides playing very different style of rugby: Bath gaining confidence with their fast moving high risk ball in hand game and Sarries with their tight, forward based approach. Whose game would we play?

Looking back on our afternoon, this was a game dominated by the packs. What may have looked from the sidelines as dour, attritional rugby, represented a massive effort by the forwards of both sides. Sadly, we were not to see the silky skills of Mr Maddock or the power of Mr Banahan as options to get the ball wide were limited by the war going on in the set piece.

The first Bath points on the board came on 5 minutes following Bath's first attacking scrum and the pinging of the Sarries pack.

Hougaard evened the scores after Bath infringed at the breakdown on 17 minutes, the first significant visit the men in black had made to their visitors 22.

25 minutes in and the relentless struggle in the forwards was lightened up with one of the comedy tries of the year. Van Heerden took the ball cleanly from the Sarries throw on 5 metres and stumbled backwards to find nothing between himself and the try line. The conversion went wide to give Sarries an 8-3 advantage midway through the first half.

And then the pinging of the Sarries pack began.  By the half time whistle, Bath had closed the gap with two more successful kicks to one from Sarries. Mr Rose was obviously not happy about something ...

The second half did not begin well. An attacking Bath scrum in front of the posts resulted in another penalty which Ryan Davis sent wide. Finally, 6 minutes into the second half Joe Maddock made his first real break, but the ball went wide and eventually into touch. Ten minutes in and another kick from Ryan had gone astray. Bath were not capitalising on the opportunities being gifted to them by a Sarries side playing 8 man rugby with increasingly predictable poor kicking whenever they took the ball wide.

Bur Mr Rose was not happy and on 55 minutes his unhappiness resulted in Bath being given a penalty try which Ryan duly converted.

The scoring ended there, with Bath taking a two point lead to the final whistle, 14-16. Olly was unable to add to the score, his first place kick since his return going wide, and the game eventually being settled by the wayward kicking of Sarries 10 Hougaard who squandered the opportunity to give the men in the black the points with 2 late missed penalties.

Lessons from this afternoon:

Yes, we did miss Butch. Ryan just didn't have the time to set the backline in motion. Nick made every effort to move the ball up the centre of the pitch, but the ball would just not go wide.

We were well prepared to play the game in the forwards. We have a Plan B. The starting pack played the full 80 minutes and were immense throughout.

Sarries have a big problem with their back line which has already been well documented. Their kicking away of hard won ball was less than popular in the South Stand.

This was the kind of game we would probably have lost earlier in the season, and some wayward kicking almost gifted it to our hosts. But after a couple of weeks of celebrating our back play, today was an opportunity to applaud our forwards and their huge work rate.

And so, homeward, with a quick stop off at a very quiet Druids. Will I miss Watford? No, I can live without never being more than 50 yards from heavily discounted garden furniture or a kebab. But still, at least one recent high profile signing for the men in black sees "exciting things" happening at Vicarage Road. I'm curious to know what these "exciting things" could be. They weren't in evidence today.

Photos by Patrick Khachfe - www.patrickkhachfe.com