Champions: Alex Waller lifts the Premiership Cup for Northampton

By NEALE HARVEY
HARLEQUINS will welcome Bristol Bears to the Twickenham Stoop on Friday September 20 to kick off next season’s Premiership Cup.
Four weeks before the start of Premiership, the 12 teams will be grouped into three pools of four, with the top team in each and the best runner-up across the pools qualifying for the semi-finals.
The final will be staged – once again – at the stadium of the highest-seeded side. Last season’s inaugural competition, replacing the Anglo-Welsh Cup, saw Northampt...