When Pep Guardiola the footballer was searching for a club in 2005, he spent a drizzly afternoon craning his neck as Manchester City and West Bromwich Albion played out a goalless draw consisting largely of head tennis.
In the history of the six-team women’s Six Nations only once has a side other than England or France won the title, and that was back in 2013, when Ireland broke the duopoly.
The shock of their Saracens shellacking is just about wearing off as winger Cadan Murley sits down at the coffee shop overlooking Harlequins’ new indoor training facility.