True, the embryonic Aviva Premiership is a little too predictable for what supposedly is a league founded on equality – the top four are the same sides who contested the previous two season’s play-offs – but the rugby has been palatable.
Viewers are watching more of it thanks to the new contract with BT Sport and are liking what they are seeing with viewing figures up by 120 per cent on last season’s Sky figures.
The product, as the television executives might dismally call it, is proving satisfactory. But nowhere is it more satisfactory than at leaders Saracens. Having finished in the bottom half of the try-scoring table for the past five seasons, the reformed side have crossed for a startling 13 in just three games.
Four of them have gone to David Strettle, who believes while the perfect plastic of their new home Allianz Park is a factor, there is more to the transformation than simply artificial assistance.
“I’d like to think it is because we have improved as a team,†said Strettle, above.
David Strettle on front foot for Saracens
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