Ollie Lawrence: Bath centre named Premiership player of the season

Centre Ollie Lawrence scored 5 tries for Bath this play aft joining from Worcester past autumn

Centre Ollie Lawrence has been named arsenic Premiership subordinate of the play aft a standout run for Bath.

He signed a "long-term deal" with the nine conscionable implicit a week later.

Saracens' Mark McCall was named the league's manager of rugby of the season, aft helium led the nine to the apical of the table.

London Irish flanker Tom Pearson won the breakthrough subordinate of the play grant aft helping the nine to 5th spot - their highest spot successful the array since the 2008-09 campaign.

Bath started the play astatine the bottommost of the Premiership connected a tally of 7 consecutive defeats.

But they secured a spot successful adjacent year's Champions Cup successful their last match, with Lawrence scoring the last effort successful their triumph implicit Saracens which moved Bath up to eighth successful the table.

Lawrence, who won 4 of his 11 caps for England during this year's Six Nations, scored 5 tries successful full for Bath crossed 12 league appearances.

He was nominated alongside Saracens and Sale fly-halves Owen Farrell and Rob du Preez and Leicester back-rower Jasper Wiese.

"They gave maine a 2nd chance, looking astatine my vocation and seeing what I wanted to bash with it. I deliberation the hunger and the information for maine was to beryllium 1 of the champion players successful this state and successful the league," Lawrence said.

"I've been fixed an accidental and I couldn't not instrumentality it. I conscionable threw myself successful there. I was fortunate that I had immoderate truly bully friends astatine Bath truthful that settled maine successful rather well.

"That desperation of knowing that I could not person a occupation astatine each - immoderate of my champion mates inactive don't now. So past to beryllium present present is beauteous special."

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