It was great to see the season end with a roar

THE end of another season and dare I say the first proper end to the Premiership seasonal competition in years.

- JEFF PROBYN

There have been an endless number of seasons where one club has dominated the league to an unrealistic extent that it has been a foregone conclusion as to who was going to be champions months before the final games.

However, last Saturday’s match between Bath and Leicester was a real championship-deciding game with both clubs having a real shot at winning the title.

Leicester may have had a slight mental advantage on paper, due to the fact that a number of the club’s older stars had announced that they were retiring at the end of this season and wanted to leave as champions. This put pressure on the team to perform at their best, but in the end their failure to keep all 15 players on the pitch for the full 80 minutes with two yellow cards (one in each half) probably didn’t help.

Bath, on the other hand, needed the win to recover their place as one of the major clubs with a longhistory of wins titles having not been crowned league champions for 29 years.

Bath and Leicester were always the sides to beat back in the days when I was playing and although us Wasps did achieve some wins, it was always a battle.

There has also been some growth in the overall audience size with a number of Premiership clubs hosting games at various football and other sports stadiums attracting bigger audiences, while the TNT viewer audience figures also seem to be increasing in numbers.