Gavin Mairs: Bath 23 Leicester Tigers 22, Brian Moore: Bath 26 Leicester 18, Daniel Schofield: Bath 24 Leicester 20, Charlie Morgan: Bath 34 Leicester 30, Charles Richardson: Bath 29 Leicester 26

Having won the Premiership Rugby Cup and European Challenge Cup, Bath have the chance to complete a treble on Saturday - Getty Images

Bath will be favourites, having romped to a home semi-final in the regular season and collected two trophies already, but Leicester showed plenty of guile and spirit to get past Sale Sharks last weekend.

Telegraph Sport’s rugby experts predict who will lift the trophy.

Gavin Mairs: Bath 23 Leicester Tigers 22

Leicester are on a roll and showed against Sale they have the firepower and control to take Bath right to the wire. Add in the emotional edge of farewells to Dan Cole, Ben Youngs and captain Julian Montoya, with the coaching menace of Michael Cheika, and we should be set for a compelling final.

Yet, it has to be Bath’s year. As they showed against Bristol, they can weather storms, adapt their game plan under pressure and have the depth of talent on their bench to make the difference in the final quarter. That said, I expect we will be in for late drama.

Brian Moore: Bath 26 Leicester 18

The Premiership final will probably not be as laissez-faire as the titanic semi-final between Bath and Bristol, but I do expect it to match that game’s intensity and drama.

Both Leicester and Bath have sufficiently attractive and creative attacks but the reason that they, rather than their challengers, have reached the final is that they possess the extra element of pragmatism.

Some people will frame the contest as a battle between two outstanding fly-halves, portraying Finn Russell as the romantic and Handre Pollard as the realist, but that would be to ignore the fact that both players, and indeed both sides, can and will make it a battle of attrition if necessary.

Finn Russell’s battle with Handre Pollard will go a long way to deciding the final - Getty Images/David Rogers

With little to choose between the sides in the set-pieces, the carrying skills of the respective back rows will probably decide the outcome of a tense encounter.

Daniel Schofield: Bath 24 Leicester 20

Bath have been my unoriginal title tip from the off-season. Perhaps the one question mark over Johann van Graan’s side has been whether they can get over the line in big games having lost last year’s final to Northampton. Winning the Premiership Cup and European Challenge Cup goes some way to answering that question. Even when they have been put under strain like Bristol managed in the first half of the semi-final at the Rec, Bath can simply send for the type of cavalry that Genghis Khan used to call upon.

Leicester’s great advantage lies in the experience offered by three 100-Test cappers in Youngs, Cole and Montoya as well as double World Cup winner Pollard. Cheika will also have something up his sleeve for his final game in charge of Leicester, but right here and now I am unable to reverse engineer what Leicester’s route to victory is, short of a red card or two. Bath’s pack seems too strong and their half-backs simply too classy.

Charlie Morgan: Bath 34 Leicester 30

Tigers have spent six weeks confounding my expectations and are one upset away from what would be a remarkable title triumph. This has felt like Bath’s year to me since last summer. They consolidated their squad while others were rebuilding to varying degrees and romped to the top of the table thanks to a familiar formula; emptying an imposing bench and dominating the second half of games.

Beno Obano’s red card and the gut-wrenching defeat by Northampton Saints at this stage 12 months ago, as well as restoring the club as an eminent force in the English game, have all served as fuel. As well as depth in the forwards – without Sam Underhill and Alfie Barbeary, they have called upon Josh Bayliss – Russell runs a potent back line.

Beno Obano’s red card tilted last year’s final in Northampton’s direction - Getty Images/David Rogers

Leicester simply will not care about any of that. Indeed, they will relish the notion of Bath as favourites. Tigers, themselves motivated by farewells, have the individuals to hang tough in the crucial aspects of a one-off contest: the gain-line, the set-piece, the aerial exchanges and the breakdown. Everywhere you look, from Freddie Steward to Montoya via Ollie Chessum, they have warriors. Adam Radwan offers try-scoring X-factor, too. We have a special decider in store.

Charles Richardson: Bath 29 Leicester 26

One of the closest, tightly-contested finals in history, with Bath emerging as undisputed, deserved champions.

Leicester are waving off a host of names – as well as Cheika, Montoya, Youngs, Cole and Pollard there are popular young lads like James Whitcombe and Dan Kelly, too – but even with Underhill and Jaco Coetzee missing Bath’s depth should see them home.

Leicester, to stand any chance, must make a fast start but, even then, it might not be enough; Bristol did the same last Friday and ultimately were overwhelmed by Van Graan’s side after half-time, as the benches came into play.

That said, the Tigers’ replacements also stepped up last weekend in the play-off victory over Sale. Whatever the result, the occasion and the spectacle will be fabulous; let’s hope the on-field action, fascinating as it will be, matches the off-field revelry.

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