Hogg: ‘Saracens gave us the kick up the backside we needed’

As British parliamentarians are proving with almost daily inefficiency, leaving Europe can be complicated but as far as Stuart Hogg is concerned, the swift and summary elimination of Glasgow Warriors earlier this season has been the best thing that could have happened to his club.

Being beaten by Saracens has been a theme running through this season’s Guinness PRO14 play-offs with three of the league’s semi-finalists having exited Europe at the hands of the newly-crowned kings of the continent.