In today's Scotsman, Tommy said: “It has definitely been a key message this week. Ideally, you want to start well in every game, there is a lock focus on the first 20 minutes but, especially coming into this game, away from home, against a side that likes to play an attacking brand, and effective attacking brand, of rugby, we definitely need to start out well against them.
“If we can go down there and impose ourselves on the game in the first 20 or 30 minutes and create a scenario where they feel they are not going to be able to play the kind of rugby they want to, it will put pressure on Bath.
“If every time they try to run it they come up against a defence that is as keen to defend their attack as they are to implement it, then that is a tough ask.
“So we have to impose ourselves in the first 30 minutes in our defence, but we also have to go out and attack them as well, give as good as we get and show the impetus we did in the first game against them.
“But we have not disguised, not put a cloak over our ambitions in terms of the European cup in any of the last three or four years that I have been here. It’s still in our hands, and we are not disguising it as anything other than our desire for this club to do something we have never done before.”