After all, Team Bath (Bath University's soccer team) has shown the way with their good run in the FA Cup.
But, after training with Grecians boss Paul Tisdale's former club Team Bath, he is now expected to play in City's friendly with Portsmouth on Wednesday.
Hape made his first England appearance in the non-cap, pre-tour game against the Barbarians and has been preferred at inside centre to Bath team-mate Olly Barkley, alongside Mike Tindall in midfield.
Banahan, who took Mike Tindall's place in one of four changes to the side that beat the Wallabies, was paired with Bath team-mate Shontayne Hape in the centres for the first time at international level.
Smith, who also played rugby league for Balmain Tigers, started his coaching career at Eastern Suburbs and had spells with the Australia sevens team, the ACT Brumbies and Bath before joining London Irish.
Bath have games in hand on every team above them in the table bar third-placed Gloucester and the run of defeats was against the top three in the league.
Castres' commitment was rewarded in the dying moments when Tillous-Borde went over in the corner, however the score was purely academic as Northampton closed out the game to ensure they became the first English team to record a 100% pool record since Bath in 2002.
Coach Steve Meehan struck a pessimistic note prior to the match, stating plainly that his bulky Bath side faced an uphill task against a resurgent Ulster team backed by a hostile home crowd.
"Back-to-back wins over Bath show just how much we have come on as a team, " said former Ireland forward Davidson.
"We are a new team, and a team forced to make a lot of changes through injury, " the Bath prop added.
The former Bath coach had previously had two spells on England's backroom team as a forwards coach after a short stint as head coach of Ireland.
With the pre-match preamble over, Bath took to the pitch to muted applause, while the Ulster team's arrival was greeted by a display of fireworks, with the resultant smoke drifting across the pitch delaying kick-off by a few minutes.
Former Gloucester man Yachvili's match-winning kick a few metres inside his team's half just about had the legs but despite being a man down Bath continued to put the phases together.
He has ignored the recent furore at Bath and concentrated on England in the past few weeks, solely focusing on following the likes of new team-mates Danny Care and James Haskell in becoming a permanent fixture on the international scene after being handed his debut.
His black Division champion hat set aside for a minute, his smile still fresh after he doused coach Tom Coughlin with a cold, on-field Gatorade jug bath, he said he'd like to "wake up the echoes" of the 2007 Giants team that got hot late and went on to a Super Bowl upset.
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