Paul Rees looks at the challenges teams face on the road in the Champions Cup and the Challenge Cup plus more ahead of the finals in Bilbao...
France and Ireland, the leading two teams in this year’s Six Nations, provide the finalists for this month’s Champions Cup showpiece in Bilbao as well as the Challenge Cup conclusion in the Spanish capital the night before.

England’s last two clubs in competitions that before the inclusion of the South African franchises used to be known as Europe, and may as well still be such has been the four’s lack of impact, Bath and Exeter Chiefs, lost with a bit...