By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week

The season of good cheer got a kick-start last week with Steve Diamond’s musings about the size of Bath’s squad after Newcastle had been drubbed 40-15.
Diamond said his team was always going to struggle “when you come across these big clubs who’ve got 70 players in their squad, and doing a remarkable job fitting them all in the salary cap”.
Diamond knows what he’s talking about. As DoR at Sale he had a huge squad, spearheaded by Springboks Faf de Klerk and Lood de Jager, during a three year period (2019-2021) in which he appeared to have si...