England look to have fielded their strongest team ahead of a crucial World Cup warm-up against Wales, and you can find all the action and reaction from that game in The Rugby Paper this Sunday.
The hosts of that game – and France vs Scotland – are favoured to win, and will feel their preparation for the tournament will be badly derailed if they are to lose having already both lost last week to the same opposition, with England beaten 20-9 and France losing 25-21 having led 21-3 at the break.
Since then, England have announced their squad for the World Cup and Jerry Guscott, Nick Cain and Paul Rees will be analysing Steve Borthwick's picks for France 2023.
Meanwhile, Brendan Gallagher looks in detail at Samoa squad, plus squad news from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina and Fiji, and picks out three potential stars for the upcoming tournament.
As well as our other regular columnists Peter Jackson and Jeff Probyn, Chris Hewett says All Black veteran Sam Whitelock deserves to be mentioned alongside the game's very best.
Away from the international game, preparations are ramping up for the domestic season and as Neil Fissler reveals the latest transfer news we will be looking at all the ins and outs from National League One.
We have match coverage from pre-season games amongst National Leagues sides, James Harrington previews next weekend's start in Top 14 and readers will be able to browse a full list of fixtures from next season's re-launched Premiership Women's Rugby.
And as always, don't forget to check out our Dream Team and My Life In Rugby features, which this week have former Gloucester, Leeds and Bristol full-back Jon Goodridge and former Bath prop Richard Lee respectively.
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