Schmidt scoffs at sour Sarries

DID a strange sense of foreboding strike anyone as the final whistle blew on Saturday to deliver a well-earned Heineken Cup victory on the road for Leinster?

It certainly struck Saracens director of rugby Brendan Venter who believes his team’s expansive style is being strangled by more pragmatic outfits.

The South African went as far as to say that “rugby will die” if the sport’s powers that be do not intervene and properly police the new law interpretations in a consistent matter but while the bells were tolling in his mind they may in truth be merely for Saracens’ European ambitions this season.