"Shortly after the hour mark at The Rec last weekend, Bath's influential scrum-half Ben Spencer put up the latest of his many towering box-kicks, and Alex Nankivell, Munster's makeshift winger, took his eye off the ball for a split second before fumbling it into touch. A brief stoppage in play followed, and as Nankivell assessed Bath's attacking shape before they took their lineout, he locked eyes with Finn Russell, whose body language left him in no doubt about what was coming next."
""I saw him looking at me off the lineout and I knew he was coming back to me," Nankivell recalls."
Shortly after the hour mark at The Rec, Bath scrum-half Ben Spencer launched another towering box-kick that Munster's makeshift winger Alex Nankivell misjudged and fumbled into touch. Play stopped briefly while Munster prepared their lineout and Nankivell scanned Bath's attacking shape. Nankivell then locked eyes with Finn Russell and read Russell's body language as a clear indicator of his next move. The eye contact left Nankivell certain that Russell intended to come back to him. Nankivell confirmed that he saw Russell looking at him off the lineout and anticipated the return.
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