HENRY Slade has revealed how confidence gained from working with boyhood hero Jonny Wilkinson helped him deliver the kick that killed Saracens’ hopes of a ‘double-double’.
Saracens boss Mark McCall described Slade’s astonishing 60-metre touch finder in the final minute of last week’s epic Premiership semi-final as, ‘one of the great kicks of all time’.
Exeter rammed over the resultant five-metre lineout drive to seal their place in yesterday’s final, leaving man-of-the-moment Slade to reflect on the growing influence of Wilkinson, who has been...