Exeter and Wasps serve up final thriller to show best of English club rugby | Michael Aylwin

Some have doubted the Premiership’s need for play-offs but Gareth Steenson’s last-gasp winning kick was a fittingly dramatic end to justify their existenceWhat a final, they kept saying, and they were right, but they all are. Folk have of late mused that we will not need these play-offs to determine the champions when they stretch out the domestic season to 10 months, smoothing out those crinkly weekends which overlap with the international game.The latter folk are wrong. To be at Twickenham in high May is to see English club rugby at its best, and there is no reason to think it will be any di…