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END OF SEASON POLL AT LAST

Thisis the first of several End of Season Polls Please Vote - Poll will be live for the next 5 days TheSaracens.com - End of Season Poll (finally) #1 Next Poll will be: Saracens Breakthrough Player of the Year
PWR Semi Final and Final 2025-26 Report

PWR Semi-Finals and Final 2025-26 Analysis Many of us were lucky enough to witness the pinnacle of the PWR season where everything is on the line, and only one team can be crowned champions - PWR final. I liked the contrast between the two teams in the final. Saracens all the history behind them while Trailfinders arrived with momentum and freedom that comes with having already broken one major assumption when they silenced the shed by beating Gloucester in their own backyard. For Saracens, yet another chance to turn sustained excellence into silverware. For Trailfinders, a first PWR final and a direct challenge to the old order. Blockbuster match up indeed.
Saracens Women v Ealing Trailfinders PWR Final Report

Wow, what a day out that was.! Having just got home from an extremely busy, fun filled day in southwest London, I feel it's only right to assemble a reports while the details are fairly fresh in my head, albeit this has been written late at night as my insomnia has struck again and without Grammarly, so please bare with me for any grammatical errors. We walked to the stoop filled with a mixture of trepidation and also excitement. Unfortunately my train was delayed so I missed the SSA procession but got to the Stoop early enough to be able to cheer the players from the coach into the stadium. Having seen what Ealing did to Gloucester the previous weekend, they were an opposition not to be taken lightly. Back to the welcome cheering and chanting, I do hope they appreciated the welcome, albeit a little damaging to their eardrums. I knew as soon as renditions of Frankie Valli’s classic ‘I love you baby’ (sarries substituted for baby) started, they started to walk a little quicker. Whether it was sound being an assault on their ears or embarrassment, I couldn’t tell. We sat and enjoyed our pints and food while we were watching the players warming up. I spotted Leanne Infante with her infant (see what I did there?) and May Campbell wondering around too. and it didn't take long for 3:00 PM to arrive when the players ran out together. I must admit the deafening music was a little annoying, however the atmosphere generated by both sets of fans more than made-up for this. Of an 8099 official attendance, 5-5.5k plus must’ve been sarries fans. Every which way I looked it was a sea of red and black. Brilliant turnout from our fans on a big day out.
Saracens Women v Ealing Trailfinders PWR Final Preview

And so we reach PWR final day! Please feel free to comment pre match thoughts here. This isn't a full preview, just an opportunity for views to be shared about todays game.
MARK McCALL, AN APPRECIATION

Saracens and Mark McCall are synonymous with each other. For 17 years he has been a fixture at the club. Under his leadership Sarries became the most successful club in Europe: 6 Premiership Titles and 3 European Champions Cups. StoneX is going to be a very strange place without him come September.
Saracens Women v Exeter Chiefs Women PWR Semi-Final Report

Crikey what a match that was! I’m sure nobody will say we were left short of entertainment today. Running out to the rapturous cheers of a good 2-3k ish fans at StoneX, I’m sure there was no doubt in the mind of the wolfpack what was expected of them today. Eliminating an old rival (Exeter Chiefs) from the playoffs and making it to the final, but this is always easier said than done. It took a mammoth effort to get the job done, but we did it, and that’s the main thing. I wandered down from where I’d parked on a residential road just opposite the main entrance to Champions Way to the stadium. A bonus was that this wasn’t classed as an event day by Barnet Council, so parking was free, and I scanned in and immediately headed to cheer the women onto the field, ready and raring to go. From there, to the shop for a few bargains and the Olympic Bar for rogan josh and chips. Disappointing to see a reduced offering of food for today's game. The burger van looked good, but at a tenner for a burger, prices were not appealing. Same for the ice cream van. £5 for a 99 whippy with a flake. Extortionate. I stuck to my curry and chips, and very tasty and filling it was too. Watching both teams warm up, there seemed to be an air of excitement and yet tension, neither team looking totally settled and rather more uncharacteristic handling errors from backs and forwards alike in the Sarries camp. Hey ho, better get them out the way before the game starts!
Exeter Chiefs v Saracens Premiership Report

It was the final round of games in the Gallagher Premiership and most eyes were focused at Devon as old foes Exeter Chiefs and Saracens did battle in what was a knockout (a quarter-final I suppose) at Sandy Park. Having attended the SSA meetup at the Blue Ball in a nearby village, I’d walked to the ground, cheered the team in and taken my spot in the east stand terrace ready for kick off. Big voice and flag ready, I was looking forward to what would be a proper grudge match. I was surrounded by a good 10/12 Sarries fans in the SE corner of the terrace, all cheering loud and proud with plenty of entertaining songs at the ready. SP has not been a happy hunting ground for us in recent times so I was determined to do my bit to help the team get the win.The Chiefs were occupying fourth spot, but Rob Baxter and his side knew that a win for Saracens and outgoing head coach Mark McCall would see the Londoners leapfrog them barring a few permutations. Either way, allowing Sarries the opportunity to win would cost them their spot in the playoffs. This was, in every sense, the match of the round. Clawing our way back to fourth place on the back of five consecutive wins and taking 24/25 available points were within touching distance of a semi-final at Northampton, a rematch of the SF 2 years ago. Henry Slade led the way as Exeter emerged emphatic 32-12 winners and they secured a Gallagher Prem play-off against Bath. The result was agonising. Saracens had the better of the first half, played some of their best rugby of the season, and were desperately unfortunate to go in behind. Exeter grew into the contest, took control after half-time and exposed a Saracens side that ran out of ideas, carriers and ultimately belief as the game slipped away. Exeter were the better team so congrats to them on the win, but the manner in which we lost was deeply frustrating.
EXETER v SARACENS: please post match related content here

This weekend sees the biggest game of the season. Haven’t I said that before? Last week, the week before, the week before that? Sarries have been playing knock out rugby since April. And they’ve got pretty good at it too. When all this began back in April it was all a bit of a laugh. In truth I don’t think anyone seriously thought we’d come this far. It seemed like a very big ask. But now it’s all coming true and the play offs are so close we can almost touch them.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

“I dreamed a dream in days gone by……..” Sorry, sorry, didn’t mean to invoke the dreadful “do you hear the people sing” but our dream lives on to the last day of the season. Despite the topsy turvey results at Bristol and Leicester, that dream is still in our own hands. As I understand it we need to beat Exeter by at least 3 match points (ie 4-1, 5-2) to qualify for 4th place ahead of the Chiefs. No mean feat and it will require a considerable step up in performance from yesterday to beat an Exeter team on something of a roll but it’s not impossible. (“to dream the impossible dream….”)
SARACENS V QUINS PREVIEW post match related comment here

Well I’ve said it before and I very much hope to be saying it again, but Saturday sees the biggest game of our season (so far). Who would have thought we’d be here a couple of months ago – it’s what makes rugby such a great game. But having won 4 on the bounce and taken 19 out of 20 possible points, our future is now in our hands. Of course one needs to be realistic: that future extends to a probable away semi-final at Franklins Gardens (or if not The Rec) so it’s all going to be a tough ask but what are miracles made for?