Who could stand out as a new season of English professional rugby draws near?
Four times he has flown south from France in the last 13 months, his involvement at the 2023 and 2024 World Rugby U20 Championship sandwiching the trips he made in December and April with La Rochelle in the Champions Cup.
Eddie Jones' downfall, Wales's resurrection and the match of the tournament between Ireland and South Africa lit up the rugby world
There aren’t many fairytales in sport, but it felt like we’d just witnessed one of them: a side whose captain had poured her World Cup heartbreak into a history-making campaign - record-breaking, table-topping, and then playoffs conquering at the very first time of asking. There’s already plenty of chat about next season - sport is relentless and unrelenting, as we know - but some moments are worth dwelling on, and this was certainly one of those.
The much-travelled England wing has spent a career scoring tries and he crossed an impressive milestone against Exeter Chiefs
French 10 Remi Tales has called time on his 16-year-long professional rugby career at the age of thirty six.
Historically, France has had a love-meh relationship with its 10s - think Jules Plisson, David Skrela, Francois Trinh-Duc, Remi Tales, Lionel Beauxis, Camille Lopez.
Rugby in France is in disarray but Sunday's all-French European quarter-final can be the tonic that reminds us that they still have abundant talent and can royally entertain.