Bath’s recent appetite for South African stock appears to be as yet unsatisfied as Sharks playmaker Curwin Bosch has been linked with a move to the English Premiership club.

Having unveiled former Springbok assistant coach Johann van Graan as the new head coach from next season, and then recruiting former Sharks defence coach Brent Janse van Rensburg, last-placed Bath have hitched their hopes of Premiership revival to a South African brand of rugby.

Van Graan, currently at Munster, was on the ground floor as a technical adviser when Heyneke Meyer built the Bulls into southern hemisphere champions while Janse van Rensburg applied the same percentage tactics to get the Pumas and then Griquas punching well above their weight in the Currie Cup.

Key to playing the percentages is an accurate kicking game and there are few more talented in that department than Bosch.

Unfortunately, the 24-year-old has shown less aptitude for defence in his career which may explain why he has only made one Test appearance since Rassie Erasmus took charge of the Springboks in 2018. Bosch also appears to have fallen out of favour at the Sharks where Boeta Chamberlain bumped him out of the No 10 jersey.

Bosch is reportedly under contract with the Sharks until 2023 but The Rugby Paper claims there is a clause in his contract that would allow him to void the final year.