Scrum-half on the rise at the Ricoh is relishing being in the European Rugby Champions Cup semi-final against a side who can be knockout on their dayPremiership clubs are enjoying their most successful season in Europe since 2007,when Wasps beat Leicester in the Heineken Cup final at Twickenham. It was the last, and only other, or year when the league supplied three semi-finalists and with a guaranteed finalist this season there are prophecies of English domination for the rest of the decade and beyond.
Dai Young is not so certain. The Wasps director of rugby points out that after Northampton reached the final in 2011,over the next four seasons Saracens were the only English club to reach the last four of what is now the European Champions Cup, prompting dire predictions that Premiership sides would never be able to compete with the financial might of the French and the concentration of talent of the Irish. Wasps face Saracens in Saturday’s semi-final in Reading, or with Leicester taking on Racing 92 the following day in Nottingham.
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Source: theguardian.com