When Wasps went bust with debts of £95m and all 167 employees lost their jobs, a redundant pair of England internationals found new ones in the greener fields of France.

On October 9, 2022, days before the serial champions of England and Europe vanished in clouds of dust, Dan Robson and Jack Willis had given their last blood, sweat and, ultimately, tears for a lost cause.
What they, and the game as a whole, lost that Saturday at the Coventry Building Society arena went far beyond the result: Wasps 36 Northampton 40.
Robson and Willis went their separate ways only to end up in much the same ...