Last season’s finalists go to Saracens on Sunday having lost three of their five matches and their director of rugby, Dai Young, admits standards have slippedLosing the Premiership final is becoming a curse. Like Exeter last season and Bath the year before Wasps have lost three of their first five Premiership matches and defeat at Saracens on Sunday would dump them in their worst run since 2014. Bath strangled them last weekend at the Ricoh Arena by slowing down their ball and narrowing their lines of attack. “We have said since the start of the season, including the victories, that we have not been playing the way we like. Exeter lost a few games early on last season but still went on to win the Premiership.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2017 08:26 UTC