Saracens’ collective force of will redrawing European rugby blueprint | Paul Rees

Defeat of Clermont Auvergne in European Champions Cup owed as much to team ethos as individual flair – Mark McCall’s side pulled together when going got toughChris Ashton stumbled slightly when he was asked why he was leaving Saracens for Toulon at the end of the season. The most direct of runners took a circuitous route as he pondered the answer to a question which was inviting him to explain why he was swapping the dominant club in Europe for the one they had supplanted and which was on its third head coach of the campaign.Ashton, like David Strettle two years ago, is not so much leaving Sar…