After the excitement of the Aviva Premiership and European Challenge Cup so far this season, the show rolls on to the LV= Cup this weekend.
Or at least it does for the English teams involved. The Anglo-Welsh cup has plenty of Anglo but no Welsh involvement on this opening weekend.
If the organisers of the competition wanted to make it appear more relevant, rather than arranging for players to pose for selfie pictures on social media with badly inflated balls bearing the sponsors' logo, they should have ensured everyone taking part knew the relevant dates from the start.
Instead every English side that was paired with a side from the other side of the River Severn in the opening round of fixtures was left in limbo as there was a full round of Guinness Pro12 games scheduled as well.
If you want supporters to take the competition seriously and not dub it as the Luncheon Voucher Cup, you could start with getting the teams involved and their league chiefs to take it seriously.
When the details of the competition were announced, Exeter were told they would start the defence of their title away against Newport Gwent Dragons. The problem was the Rodney Parade outfit had already been told by their Pro12 bosses that they were off to Belfast to face Ulster on the same weekend.
Even though most sides field weakened teams in the LV= Cup, fielding two teams in such a short space of time was never going to happen.
Commonsense has prevailed as this weekend's fixtures see a clean-sweep of English sides taking on English sides, an Anglo-Anglo cup if you will.
Instead of facing Newport this weekend and hosting Gloucester at the end of January, Gloucester are travelling to Devon this Saturday and the Chiefs will head to South Wales on January 31.
Scheduling farces aside, this year's competition will be an intriguing one for the Chiefs as it became their salvation last term after a disappointing campaign.
Baxter used the games in January and February to try to get his players back into form for their return to the Premiership, and the happy side-effect was that they won their way through to the semi-finals.
The priority this year remains the domestic league, but the pride from winning their first piece of top-flight silverware will mean the Chiefs will take the competition seriously.
That can help make the rest of this campaign even more exciting than it already promises to be.
