The Daily Mail's Chris Foy provides his take on the mooted summer season.
"English and French clubs are trying to revive the concept of a summer season in Europe as part of revolutionary plans for the sport, but traditionalists are in uproar.
The well-worn argument is that rugby union is a winter game - always has been. Well, so was rugby league until they switched it to the sunnier months and that has been a success.
It is time to at least consider the outlandish possibility."