Northampton and Leicester will have to overcome increasingly hefty odds if they are to prevent the two regular season frontrunners Saracens and Sale Sharks from hosting an S club party at this year’s Premiership final at Twickenham on 27 May.
The away team has triumphed just six times in 37 semi-final attempts since the format was introduced in 2002-03 and there has been only one such instance in the past seven seasons. The exception to the rule was Harlequins in 2021, when they staged the biggest comeback in Premiership history to nudge aside Bristol at Ashton Gate.
