London Welsh 17-68 Saracens
With one of their London Welsh jokers still to play, Saracens were always likely to take the fourth play-off spot, and that they duly did. Four tries in nine minutes at the start of the final quarter, three of them by Chris Ashton in the space of five minutes, were enough to make the situation safe, even allowing for Exeter’s own surge of late points at home to Sale. Final-round rugby often has a touch of the surreal about it – see this season’s Six Nations – and so it was here.
Except there’s nothing very surreal about a London Welsh hiding – indeed, the 21-17 scoreline after half-an-hour was the surreal one. Ten minutes into the second half it was still touch and go, even though Saracens were nurturing a 16-point lead. But the second-half score ended up being 42-0, as Welsh cruised towards a final tally of 1,021 points conceded this season, surpassing West Hartlepool’s record in 1999, which was gathered over four more games. Remarkable, then, that for so long in this game the destiny of that fourth spot was a live issue.
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