“I have never set a goal since I have been here,” says McCall, who arrived in 2009. “What we talk about much more is the kind of club we want to be part of, the kind of atmosphere we want to have at the training ground. The joy at the end of last season was short-lived so we put it back to what we do every day. We want that to be a good experience, an enjoyable experience.

"We want this place to be one where people look forward to coming to work. We want them to work hard obviously, that is also very important, but when we set out seven years ago the aim was to be consistent at everything we do to give ourselves a chance every weekend to perform well and that is not going to change. When I came to Saracens it was just a club where there were 15 in and 15 out every year. Nobody hung around too long. But people hang around now.”

That they do. And they work hard too.