The Bath Chronicle reports that Bath captain Luke Watson is attempting to play down expectations ahead of the new season, despite the club's recent recruitment drive.
“The best pressure is pressure you apply to yourself,” he said. “Any external pressure is not a real thing – it’s not tangible, it’s not a physical force, it’s an emotion. I look at this upcoming season and there is a lot of expectation, a lot of people saying things, but at the end of the day it’s about what our expectations are as a side that will determine how far we will go this season.
“It’s the amount of pressure we put on ourselves to perform to our optimum that will be the deciding factor, not other people’s expectations. It’s the 15 men on the field that will have the say at the end of the day.”
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