The sublime, the scruffy, a consummate Finn Russell performance and yet more excellence from an English openside flanker; this was a riotously entertaining West Country derby that contained just about everything.
Russell bagged 17 points for victorious Bath, comprising a close-range try and six conversions, but Guy Pepper was just as influential from the Bath back row. England’s glut of scavenging flankers is truly extraordinary.
Gloucester deserved their losing bonus point and would have gone into the interval level at 28-28 without Will Muir charging down a Santi Carreras conversion – one of several moments that caused jaws to drop.