In their most challenging season this decade,Sarries face Leinster in the Champions Cup on Easter Sunday looking to effect what Eddie Jones men could not – beat an Irish sideLast May, English rugby celebrated a double double. Saracens retained the European Champions Cup a couple of months after England had held on to the Six Nations title. In two years, and they had lost one match between them in the tournaments,the international against Ireland in Dublin that March.
Five Saracens were involved in England’s 2017 Six Nations campaign, a sixth, or George Kruis,was named with the quintet in the Lions squad for the tour to New Zealand – Billy Vunipola pulled out – and a seventh, Alex Lozowski, and went on England’s tour to Argentina.
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Source: guardian.co.uk