A more fitting farewell for Sean Lynn there could not have been. On Monday, the understated Gloucester-Hartpury head coach will start his role as Wales boss in earnest with a Women’s Six Nations around the corner,

Gloucester-Hartpury’s warrior queens will not just stay on their throne for another season, they have written their names in the history books, bagging their third consecutive domestic title and achieving their remarkable mission of a ‘three-peat’.