What a final, they kept saying, and they were right, but they all are. Folk have of late mused that we will not need these play-offs to determine the champions when they stretch out the domestic season to 10 months, smoothing out those crinkly weekends which overlap with the international game.
The latter folk are wrong. To be at Twickenham in high May is to see English club rugby at its best, and there is no reason to think it will be any different in high June. Two superb, attack-minded teams cut each other up in their differing ways, Exeter by thumping Wasps through the guts, Wasps by unpicking the Exeter muscle. Twenty-two rounds could scarcely separate these two, Wasps on a record 89 tries, Exeter on 86, so 80 minutes had no chance.
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