You are back at work. At your desk. Let your mind drift, come on. Summer rugby, anyone?

At this time of year should we not be having a two-month break, too much food, and keep our training inside?

Getting cold, being trapped in traffic, and slipping on ice while coughing from bronchitis is hardly fun as you try to follow rugby at the moment. Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans must think we are stark raving bonkers.

There was a time long, long ago, when men played rugby in the winter, and cricket or golf in the summer.

The rugby season, when I was a boy, went from October to March with pre-season lasting, oh, a taxing two weeks.