Gatland: We are desperate to deliver

WASPS will make history if they beat Gloucester in tomorrow’s all-English European showdown — and finally discard their status as Heineken Cup under-achievers.

Lawrence Dallaglio and company have won five major trophies two league titles, two English knockout cups and last season's Parker Pen Challenge Cup since the Heineken Cup was launched eight years ago.

But the nearest they have come to conquering Europe was in 1998 and 2000, when their Heineken Cup hopes disappeared at the quarter-final stage both times.