It used to be that a scrum-half’s closest relationship was with the No 8, but now it is more it is more about marshalling the whole pack. It is your job to move them around. You have to be their eyes because most of the pack’s work is done with their heads down, whether it is in driving mauls, or rucking or moving. If you are organising a phase as it happens, then by the time you have got your forwards in place the defences have also had the time to rearrange and will be on the front foot.

That is why I am amazed that Northampton let Fotuali’i go. He would have suited their new French signing, Louis Picamoles, down to the ground. Northampton were at their best when Fotuali’i was working in tandem with Samu Manoa. His departure was either because of money or that he had to share the duties with Lee Dickson, who was club captain. If you are as good a player as Fotuali’i then why would you stay at a club behind someone you think you are better than?