THE opening night of the new Premiership campaign in September will reflect the highs and low of last season which was the most closely fought yet and will take some emulating, never mind trumping.
The two sides who fittingly took June’s final at Twickenham to the wire, Northampton and Bath, will meet at The Rec on what will be a frenzied Friday night in front of a highly likely capacity crowd for whom revenge will be on the menu after the Saints held on to take their second Premiership crown.
A few hundred miles north, Newcastle will welcome Bristol as they strive for a first...