Gloucester dogged by inconsistency, Edinburgh and Glasgow head for the last eight and Leinster have look of champions
The pool of champions has polarised. Leinster, for all Toulouse’s attempts to recapture past glories, are the team in control, even if they trail the French club by two points. Their victory over Bath was imperious, and Toulouse, who rode their luck anyway in round one in Bath, must travel to Dublin next. Leinster’s trip to Wasps in the final round does not look the challenge it might once have been. For two of England’s greatest clubs to be mathematically out of it after only four rounds is a sobering reflection on the Premiership, which looks worryingly short of the sort of teams who might lay claim to being of champion quality. There’s just the one of those. Michael Aylwin
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Team of weekend
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