A 2300 word season preview for the Aviva Premiership? Ok, here you go…

For Setanta Sports. With lots and lots of Opta stats. Oh yes.

21 matches. 328 scrums. No crooked feeds? It’s the scrum trial in France.

For the third week in a row no Top 14 referee has awarded a free kick for a crooked feed. How are the Premiership and Pro 12 doing?

Perspective and Patience

Were Southern Hemisphere props punished last season as often as their Northern Hemisphere brethern?