Form in Europe this season: Leinster qualified as fourth seeds with their campaign being built around impressive back-to-back wins over Northampton in rounds three and four when they looked irresistible. There had been a hiccough in the second round at Montpellier but a last-minute try and conversion by Isa Nacewa secured a bonus point and kept morale high. They destroyed the same opponents 57-3 at home but weren’t at their best in the final round, drawing 24-24 at Castres.
On paper, Wasps qualified easily enough in a pool from which Toulouse also advanced, but in reality it was far f...