Edgeley Park was barely two-thirds full - if only the EDF Energy Cup were even half.
No one is relishing the prospect of tomorrow afternoon's EDF Energy Cup final more than Gareth Delve.
Northampton launched their EDF Energy Cup campaign with a comfortable, and deserved, bonus-point victory against a Bristol side who, like the match itself, started brightly before fading.
The Cardiff Blues demolished Gloucester in the EDF Energy Cup final at Twickenham to win their first piece of silverware as a region.
Gloucester are juggling fitness and personnel issues ahead of Saturday's EDF Energy Cup final against Cardiff Blues, with the England centre Mike Tindall and the Scotland flanker Alastair Strokosch both struggling with injuries.
The new joint captain of Saracens with the England skipper, Steve Borthwick, looks around the canteen at the University of Hertfordshire where his team-mates are packing away the protein in preparation for tomorrow afternoon's EDF Energy Cup encounter with Northampton at Watford.
Meyer, aware that Leicester's dismal performance in last April's EDF Energy Cup final against the Ospreys was the beginning of the end for their coach, Marcelo Loffreda, was relieved that his young side prevailed as Bath's kicker, Robbie Kydd, missed four of six attempts at goal.
What had promised to be a close encounter was won conclusively by a side which had twice defeated Cardiff Blues in the group stage and which had beaten the Ospreys the week before in the final of the EDF Energy Cup having started their assault on the Welsh with victory over Newport Gwent Dragons in the pool stage of that competition.
(Memo to the league: America's just not that into Jay Cutler). Bubba Wallace, a black driver who will race full season in the Monster Energy Cup series a team fronted by the legendary Richard Petty, could well turn out to be Nascar's Tiger Woods.
For 2019, the sponsorship deal will see MoneyLion expand into the Monster Energy Cup Series.
