The Falcons trailed 17-0 at one stage before battling back to a 29-27 victory and Bates believes the wet conditions played their part in the struggle.

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Ynys Hir has other areas of salt marsh and is also home to wet grassland and woodland - part of which is said to date back to the 17th Century.

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So extensive were the wet-season mudslides that in some years more mud and rock fell back into the canal than had been taken out in the first place.

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Bath dealt better with the conditions at a wet Edgeley Park and, with South African fly-half Butch James back in the side, looked full of ideas in midfield.

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