Wasps coach Shaun Edwards, writing in The Guardian, muses on the impact that the ELVs had on their disappointing season.

"This is a strange feeling. We are barely into April and Wasps have no silverware to play for. After six seasons of winning something, we handed back our Premiership title at Bath on Wednesday night. European qualification is still to play for but the probability is that it will be the Challenge Cup rather than the Heineken Cup for us next season. "That means Toulon rather than Toulouse, Connacht rather than Munster or Leinster. For a side that has won the Heineken twice and started the season ranked among Europe's top six clubs, that hurts and over the next few weeks we'll try to work out what to do about it and why it happened. "Why were we a better side results-wise when our internationals were away? Without them we averaged three points a game. Why did we score 60-plus tries last season and only 20-plus so far this? "Closer analysis will no doubt throw up other issues but it has long been blindingly obvious that one of the major reasons for our discomfort is that we started the season poorly and were nowhere near the pace of the Baths and Harlequins when it came to the delights of the ELVs or rather the ways in which they would be refereed."