Borthwick to quit on European Challenge Cup final high for Bath

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Borthwick, off to Saracens on a £200,000-a-year contract after 10 years at Bath, has seen his club reach two Challenge Cup finals and lose both - to Wasps in 2003 and Clermont-Auvergne this time last year.

Last hurrah? Borthwick is quitting to join Saracens

Even if he bows out with victory in the European Challenge Cup Final against Worcester, making them only the second after Wasps to win both European club competitions, Bath fans will be wondering how many more of their international players will be leaving.

The final will be Olly Barkley's last match for the club before forming a triumvirate of former Bath players at Gloucester alongside Mike Tindall and Iain Balshaw.

No one will be working harder to stop Bath than evergreen prop Tony Windo, who has just turned 39 and will play his last match where he started his first almost 20 years ago, at Kingsholm.

His club's storming finish to the Premiership season, including successive home wins over Leicester and Gloucester, will give them every hope of upsetting the odds and sending the current England captain off to New Zealand empty-handed.

Windo's team-mates would love nothing more than to give him an unforgettable send-off and victory would catapult them into the Heineken Cup next season instead of Harlequins, currently occupying the sixth and final English place for next season.

It would be some achievement for a side who have come a long way 13 years after being crowned Midlands Division One champions.

Bath have already qualified for the Heineken, but a trophy would be a fitting reward for coach Steve Meehan, who has swapped the turgid, no-risk, no-frills policy of his Australian predecessor John Connolly for his own brand of thrilling, expansive rugby.