Pat Lam’s Bristol are looking up, Worcester secure their status and Saints are grateful to the ever-ready Dan Biggar
Is it possible to qualify for a semi-final too early? Exeter find themselves killing time between now and 25 May, the date of the Premiership play-offs, a home version of which they secured the round before the round before last. Rob Baxter talked about the “emotion vacuum” the situation had created. Exeter have two rounds to rediscover themselves, after this so-so home win over Harlequins, who could quite easily have won. Everyone else, meanwhile, is scrabbling for their lives. Whoever qualifies will have done so by tooth and nail. Baxter’s fear is that, come the big day, when Exeter try to summon the fury of yore, they may find it is no longer there. Michael Aylwin
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