If you missed this season's spending strategy pieces, please get stuck in. Part one - Bath-Harlequins: telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20… Part two - Leicester Tigers-Saracens: telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

Bit much to try and kill Graham Rowntree before kickoff.

Longish piece on changes to Premiership academies with new PGP. 🗺️ Boundary changes in ‘10 + 1’ system 📊 Geographical data examined 🏫 Min of two state school links per academy 📋 ‘National curriculum’ of positional standards ❌ Why there’s no draft telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

📘😍 New season incoming, new RUWC handbook arriving on doorsteps! All members should receive one in the coming days. Any problems, contact us & AdamHathaway. Plus! Our first preseason social - aimed particularly at new members - is next Thursday in London. Come along!

Includes a cool map of English localities that you *could* spend at least sort of seven minutes over if you're a badger like me.

James Prewett Charlie Morgan Lands End to Wellington which is on the Somerset/Devon border is roughly the equivalent of Wellington to Tamworth on the Staffs/Warwickshire border. People forget geographically how big Devon and Cornwall are. Bristol also has the most clubs per square mile in the country

Not loads of detail around on the hybrid contracts yet. But I’m gonna give em out anywaaaaay 🎶 (FWIW I’d want some of this group on smaller sort of incremental deals, I think) telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

Maddie Feaunati, known as ‘Maddie the Baddie’ to her England team-mates, is an intriguing addition to John Mitchell’s side ahead of clashes with France and New Zealand ✍️ Charlie Morgan telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20… #TelegraphWomensSport

A pleasure to meet ‘Maddie the Baddie’. telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

Exclusive: Dan Tobin, Gloucester's head of performance, is set to join England's backroom staff. Follows the departures of strength and conditioning coaches Aled Walters and Tom Tombleson. telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

Do we appreciate the subtleties of restarts enough? Not sure, but there were 14 of them during the first #RSAvNZL game, and they helped to shape a fascinating Test. Reckon Eben Etzebeth is genuinely good for 3-10 points per game as a chaser. Analysis: telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…