An English club have not lifted the trophy since 2020 and that run looks like continuing this season
, at 15-8 and 11-4 respectively. That makes the safest bet for an England win in the competition the individual person of flanker Jack Willis.in the pandemic-blighted year of 2020, it’s difficult to pick a solid contender or even to find a solid form guide.after seven rounds, but none of those teams has made a significant dent in Europe since Leicester’s semi-final in 2016.
Racing 92 and Munster made it into to last season’s Champions Cup round of 16 with just one win in the four pool matches, but there is a huge advantage in doing better than that to earn a higher seeding and a home draw in the knockouts. Leicester have their work cut out to achieve it with pool games against Bordeaux-Begles , Challenge Cup holders Sharks, Ulster and Toulouse.
Returning to the question of a form guide, if you look at Europe alone, Northampton and Harlequins did England fairly proud with runs to last season’s Champions Cup semi-finals – the problem is they are now seventh and eighth respectively in the 10-team Premiership.Northampton won away to Glasgow and Munster in the Champions Cup last season, and with a kinder bounce and a little more sangfroid in tight spots they might have knocked over Leinster in an epic semi-final at Croke Park in Dublin.
The “been there, done that” factor is strong in Europe, as it instills belief. A win over Racing 92 – for whommay be out injured until January – in Paris this weekend would set Marcus Smith and company up nicely, even if they were well beaten by Bristol last week.
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