With high ball-in-play time and success stories at Test level, England's top flight delivers an excellent product - despite its financial pitfalls.
Saracens overcame a heavily-weakened Bath but their limp 36-26 victory at StoneX was not enough to secure a place in the Gallagher Premiership play-offs.
Five teams head into the final round of the regular Gallagher Premiership season with a lot of play for this Saturday.
After the euphoria of Thursday's announcement, many of the Lions stars selected to go on this summer's 10-match tour of Australia have domestic matters to attend to this weekend.
Injuries and squad rotation have led to a much-changed 23 being named by Premiership leaders Bath for the visit of the Falcons on Saturday.
Fighting fires at every level, Welsh rugby is in a rut and there doesn't seem to be any easy escape routes
Steve Borthwick's deluge of back-rowers and clever use of the bench points the way forward for teams who cannot deploy a bruising 7:1 split.
Ahead of facing the Irish in the U20s opener, the son of ex-Dragons centre Sione and younger brother of Wales women’s international Sisilia has tackled the RugbyPass Getting to Know Q&A.
Having graduated from Caldicott and Harrow schools and skippered the English at U18s, the 19-year-old Pontypool-born hooker recently made his first-team breakthrough at Bath.
Wales U18 Carwyn Tuipulotu has a pretty famous rugby family, but the young back rower is set to make a name for himself in the sport with the Scarlets.