The final day of the Premiership was a brilliant advert for English top-flight rugby, but this weekend’s play-offs will turn that up another notch.

The final day of the Premiership was a brilliant advert for English top-flight rugby, but this weekend’s play-offs will turn that up another notch.

On Friday night runaway league leaders Bath take on local rivals Bristol Bears while, on Saturday, Leicester face Sale Sharks in the East Midlands.

The Premiership semi-finals are always a series of great games but home advantage has been key.

Across the last 10 seasons, totalling 20 semi-final fixtures, only twice has the away side gone home victorious – once when Saracens beat Northampton in 2015 and the other when Bristol lost at home to Harlequins in 2021.

In every one of the other 18 fixtu

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