NICK CAIN

Here's something for the RFU mandarins and Premiership owners who are hell-bent on keeping England’s top league ring-fenced to ponder.
The greatest Premiership season we have ever known – as over-hyped by TNT – finished with a final round of the regular season in which everything was apparently up for grabs, but in which there was just a single full-house in five matches.
Bath and Gloucester were 4,500 short of capacity, Leicester 3,500 under, Harlequins 2,500 below, and only Saracens managing a full house of 10,000 for the home farewells of Owen Farrell and the Vunipola brother...