Fans are not stupid, they are just taken as the authorities to be. Even those who will just about help to fill up Twickenham will do so aware of the affront to this fixture’s great history and tradition.

This will be the third time England and Wales have faced off in south-West London in nine months, but in terms of following on from the classic World Cup pool match and then that gripping Six Nations decider, this will be akin to The Godfather and The Godfather II being finished off in the trilogy by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Of course, there will players going at it as if their lives depended on it, even though their places on the forthcoming tours to Australia and New Zealand respectively will not even depend on it.