By LARGE
July 30 2002

The votes are in, the numbers crunched and LARGE has come up with the definitive answer. Who will finish where in the Zurich Premiership. Well, according to the fans that voted, at least. First off, thanks very much to everyone that took the time to let me have their predictions. I'll keep them on file and give the person who has the closest prediction a couple of pints at the end of the year. As long as you come around to mine to get them, that is.

OK. No real surprises in the overall poll. Suffice to say that past performance IS an indication of future performance, according to you, the readers.

Enough messing about- here is the overall poll:


1 Leicester
2 Gloucester
3 Northampton
4 Sale
5 London Irish
6 Wasps
7 Saracens
8 Newcastle
9 Bristol
10 Bath
11 Harlequins
12 Leeds

Surprisingly, nobody gave me the 12 teams in that order. Then again, if someone had, I would have asked him or her to fill in my pools coupon next weekend.

Team by team results will follow in a LARGE story later in the week.