In this Sunday’s TRP: 07/05/23

With the Women's Six Nations finished and all play-off places decided in the , there is something of a feeling of the calm before the storm heading into a huge May.

But we will have all the action from the final day of the Premiership with all-but one team involved as the final table takes shape.

It's also time for the United Rugby Championship play-offs, and we'll be across all four games: vs , Stormers vs Bulls, Leinster vs and Glasgow Warriors vs Munster.

With the Championship finished, we name our of the season as Ben Jaycock canvasses the views of the league's coaches to compile the strongest XV of the 2022/23 campaign.

And the league season may be over, but in the Championship Cup we'll be across Cornish Pirates vs Jersey Reds and Ealing Trailfinders vs Doncaster Knights.

As well as match action, we have a number of exclusive interviews this week as and England second row Courtney Lawes, Bath scrum-half and skipper Ben Spencer, new Bath assistant coach Lee Blackett, Sale Sharks' Josh Beaumont and London Irish second row and captain Matt Rogerson all sit down with our reporters.

In My Life in Rugby, former Harlequins centre and full-back Peter Mensah talks about his life in the game while Hartpury and former , Harlequins, Ospreys, Northampton and second row Ben Glynn picks a team of the best players he has played with or against in our Dream Team feature.

Paul Rees talks to Rob Baxter about the end of an era at Exeter, and and Ospreys U20s prop Louis Fletcher is our Young Gun this week.

Neil Fissler's Blindside column will be undoubtedly be worth reading as transfer season gets increasingly frantic as the season nears its ends.

And last but not least, see this week's edition of The Rugby Paper Podcast below with Stephen Ferris, with excerpts featuring in Sunday's paper.

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