We are still a few days away from Premiership Rugby’s latest “big reveal”: the fixture list for the 2023-24 campaign, featuring all those clubs still in possession of a receptacle in which to relieve themselves.
Meanwhile, the high-flying folk across the water in France know precisely what is happening when and where - and, what is more, have already shared this information with the public.
The Top 14 will begin in mid-August – the 19th, to be precise – and will complete three of its 26 “regular season” rounds before the World Cup kicks into gear in the northern reaches of Paris in early Sep...