The light is dying on Saracens’ dynasty. There was a little bit of early raging against it here, some bloody mindedness in the face of concerted dominance from a Bordeaux side who highlighted their title credentials, but the journey is nearly at an end for what was not so long ago one of the great domestic sides of the modern era.
Bordeaux beat up Saracens, then spread their wings with Louis Bielle-Biarrey scoring twice and rubbed their opponents’ faces in it. That Alex Goode waited for the clock to go red before taking his conversion at the death made it plain for all to see that Saracens just wanted to be put out of their misery.
