It’s time for Saracens to get personal

Some time at about 3 o’clock this afternoon, in a changing room at Stade
Geoffroy-Guichard, Mark McCall, Saracens’ director of rugby, will speak to
his players before their game against Clermont Auvergne for a place in the
final of the Champions Cup.

No one is giving McCall’s men much of a chance,
not least the bookies who have Clermont at 1-3 to triumph.



It is difficult to argue with that assessment.

Saracens are up against the
form side in Europe and are away from home in a tournament in which eight of
the past ten semi-finals have gone to the