Semesa Rokoduguni points proudly to his boots, a burnished turquoise pair, by the staircase. It is odd for any player to be quite so proprietorial about his footwear, but Bath’s teak-tough, Fijian-born wing is fastidious to a fault.

“I have a saying: ‘Look after your boots – and your boots will look after you,” he says, in what sounds suspiciously like a play on an Only Fools and Horses gag about Trigger and his 20-year-old broom. Except it turns out that he means it.