Leinster have enough class to get the job done

It’s been so long since Wasps carried a truly venomous sting in their tail it seems slightly surreal to recall the soon-to-be Coventry club remain the last English winners of European rugby’s biggest prize.

Seven years, a couple of new addresses and an ocean of water have passed under the bridge since 2007 and it says something of their more modest recent surroundings this is their first shot at the bigger Euro event since 2010/11. Relegation and bankruptcy have been flirted with in the intervening years and yet they have defied a busted business model that was losing them £3m a season to qualify for the inaugural Champions Cup with Leinster at the RDS their first stop.

With their future seemingly secured by the imminent switch north, in December, Wasps proceeded to produce a superb 65 minutes at Adams Park against Bath, storming into a 29-0 lead before fading and limping home 29-22.