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Concerns surrounding the salary cap, a global calendar and the theft of Italian fast food will be forgotten momentarily on Friday when Gloucester run out at Kingsholm to kick off the new Aviva Premiership season against Leicester Tigers.It is just over three months since Alex Goodes try put the seal on Saracens second successive championship win, but an influx of talent has ensured the new campaign is keenly anticipated.Leicester could line up in the west country with Rugby World Cup winner, JP Pietersen, on their right wing and are awaiting the arrival of Australia playmaker Matt Toomua.Others preparing to make their Premiership bows this term include Kurtley Beale, Taulupe Faletau, Louis Picamoles and Ben Teo, as clubs this side of the English channel attempt to keep pace with those in the Top 14.But on the domestic front, it is the champions -- bolstered by the headline acquisition of Schalk Burger -- who remain the team to beat.Its hard to look beyond Sarries, Wasps director of rugby Dai Young admitted. What theyve built over the last couple of seasons is phenomenal. Were on a journey and theyre a good blueprint for us to follow.Wasps have taken advantage of the continued softening of rules governing how much a club can spend on their squad to bolster their back line. Beale, Danny Cipriani, Kyle Eastmond and Willie Le Roux -- when he arrives from Japan -- will add spice to a side not exactly lacking try-scoring expertise already.If the Coventry club have reached for the cheque book in a bid to slug it out with Saracens, then it has been another summer of studied recruitment from their opponents this Sunday, Exeter. Last seasons beaten Premiership finalists have added quality rather than quantity, with four acquisitions compared to Wasps 13.Chiefs boss Rob Baxter is not the type to waste money, and this summers arrivals -- Dave Dennis, Ollie Devoto, Greg Holmes and Lachie Turner -- will be expected to buy into the clubs ethos and ensure a side that has improved steadily since winning promotion in 2010, does so again.The important thing for us is not to over focus on the loss to Saracens, Baxter said. If you look at what theyve done over the last few seasons, theyve gotten to some finals or knockout games and lost but theyve built on it and gotten stronger.He added: Weve recruited well, theyre a great group of players but we need to keep the core group of players last year too and drive them through another good year. Hopefully we can achieve the same level of consistency we did last season.Finding the right characters for us is the same challenge it was six or seven years ago. We spend a lot of time on it, personally I think its the most important part of my job. Theres no magic answer to it but we spend a lot of time analysing players on the rugby field because you can pick up their characteristics doing that.Exeters transformation from provincial pretender to continental contender was rubber-stamped last season as they made the Champions Cup quarterfinals as well as the Premiership final. Wasps ended the Chiefs European run in the last eight, but as Baxter plots his clubs path this campaign, he is keen to prove that success can be achieved in a sustainable manner.Rugby shouldnt be a business that is boom or bust. I would say we dont want to create a situation where clubs are going bankrupt left, right and centre because that would be bad for the game and would portray the game in a bad light, he said.However we decide to do these things, if its raising or lowering the salary cap year on year or abolishing it all together, the one fundamental thing that should remain is that we want to be competitive in Europe and that we want all Premiership clubs to be sustainable, competitive and quality businesses.It is not just on the pitch where incoming names and faces are set to excite, with Bath and Harlequins preparing for the new season under the guidance of new directors of rugby.Both clubs are keen to improve on disappointing seasons last time out, and while Quins took the decision to promote John Kingston from within, Bath looked slightly further afield, to New Zealand and Todd Blackadder.And when the former Crusaders coach says it feels like Ive been here six months rather than a few weeks, it is because he has been made to feel at home, not due to the size of the task at hand.What really hooked me to Bath was the vision of the club, he said. Theyve got a great history and legacy, really good training pitches but they really want to build on their culture. I think thats really important because the rugby is a by-product of that. The timing feels really right.Blackadder admits he is looking forward to mixing it with some of Baths more heated rivals and in that sense, he could not have timed his arrival any better.Bristol are back in the big time following seven years in the wilderness, and will be led by Andy Robinson, a former Bath boss himself, who last coached in the Premiership 16 years ago.Both Robinson and his men are now ready to make their mark in the top flight -- starting with a date against Quins at Twickenham on Saturday afternoon.Weve been desperate to get back into the Premiership and now its about putting a stamp there, the former England and Scotland coach said.The key to us is the belief that we can be successful. 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