Memories of the Rugby World Cup are already fading. Regrets over chances missed, matches let slip away, even futile complaints about referees are receding into the background. Packed away for the next four years, perhaps, as the champions’ trophy tour concludes in South Africa.
Fans and players in England should be focusing on their bread and butter: the weekly churn of domestic top-flight fixtures, a full diary of dates up and down the country, with the Six Nations punctuating the progress of a packed domestic schedule.
