England elite squad: 9 (Flutey, Haskell, Lewsey, Palmer, Payne, Rees, Sackey, Shaw, Vickery).

Prediction: 2nd.

GLOUCESTER

Coach: Dean Ryan. Captain: Match by match. Last season: 1st (semi-finalists).

IN: Barkley (Bath), Collazo (Metro Racing), Eustace (Llanelli), Somerville (Canterbury), Watkins (Llanelli), Young (Leicester).

OUT: Bailey (released), Balding (Newcastle), Califano (retired) Lloyd (retired), Mercier (Padova), Paterson (Edinburgh), Paul (released), Pendlebury (Leeds), Prendergast (Munster), Pryce (Wigan RL), Tuohy (Exeter).

England elite squad: 3 (Barkley, Narraway, Simpson-Daniel).

Prediction: 1st.

BATH

Coach: Steve Meehan. Captain: Michael Lipman. Last season: 3rd (semi-finalists).

IN: Bemand (Leicester), Crane (unattached), Hape (Bradford RL), Harrison (Ulster), Hobson (Cornish Pirates), Hooper (Leeds), Kydd (Northampton).

OUT: Barkley (Gloucester), Borthwick (Saracens), Davey (Bedford), Feaunati (retired), Purdy (N Harbour), Walshe (Bedford), Ward (Toulon).

England elite squad: 2 (Lee Mears, Matt Stevens).

Prediction: 5th.

LEICESTER

Coach: Heyneke Meyer. Captain: Martin Corry. Last season: 4th (finalists).

IN: Bonorino (Capitolina), Dupuy (Biarritz), Flood (Newcastle), Hougaard (Blue Bulls), Newby (Otago), Woods (Newcastle).

OUT: Abraham (Sale), Bemand (Bath), Burke (retired), Cornwell (Exeter), Dodge (Bedford), Goode (Brive), Hamilton (Edinburgh), Humphreys (Ulster), Laussucq (retired), Moreno (Calvisano), Murphy (Connacht), Smith (Montpellier), Young (Gloucester).

England elite squad: 8 (Chuter, Crane, Croft, Ellis, Flood, Hipkiss, Moody, Varndell).

Prediction: 4th.

SALE

Coach: Philippe Saint-Andre. Captain: Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe. Last season: 5th.

IN: Abraham (Leicester), Davies (Neath), Doherty (Wasps), Macleod (Cardiff), Ormsby (Waikato), Peel (Llanelli), Tait (Newcastle), Tuilagi (Leeds).

OUT: Bonner-Evans (retired), Bourrust (Biarritz), Evans (Calvisano), Foden (Northampton), Lobbe (Northampton), Hanley (retired), Laharrague (Montauban), Lund (Biarritz), Martens (Llanelli), Mayor (Northampton), Jones (Cornish Pirates), Seveali’i (Lon Irish), Vilk (released).

England elite squad: 2 (Sheridan, Tait).

Prediction: 3rd.

HARLEQUINS

Coach: Dean Richards. Captain: Will Skinner. Last season: 6th.

IN: Evans (Auckland), Luveniyali (Fiji Warriors), McMillan (Ulster), Taione (Natal), Tiesi (Lon Irish), Williams (Neath).

OUT: Hala’ufia (Lon Irish), Jarvis (Bristol), Keogh (Leinster), Luscombe (Worcester), Nebbett (Parma), Spanghero (Colomiers), Volley (retired).

England elite squad: 1 (Danny Care).

Prediction: 6th.

LONDON IRISH

Coach: Toby Booth. Captain: Bob Casey. Last season: 7th.

IN: Buckland (Wasps), Hala’ufia (Harlequins), Seveali’i (Sale).

OUT: Leguizamon (S Francais), Lea’aetoa (Bayonne), Mackie (Nice), McCullen (Lansdowne), Mordt (Northampton), Murphy (Viadana), Rennie (Exeter), Staunton (Wasps), Tiesi (Harlequins), Warren (Parma).

England elite squad: 3 (Geraghty, Kennedy, Richards).

Prediction: 8th.

SARACENS

Coach: Eddie Jones. Captains: Steve Borthwick/Andy Farrell. Last season: 8th.

IN: Borthwick (Bath), Jacobs (NSW), Barritt (Natal), Owen (Newport), Van Heerden (Blue Bulls)
OUT: Dickens (Northampton), Fullerton (released), Gustard (retired), Hill (retired), Yates (released).

England elite squad: 1 (Borthwick).

Prediction: 7th.

BRISTOL

Coach: Richard Hill. Captain: Joe El Abd. Last season: 9th.

IN: Alford (Launceston), Ashwin (Newbury), Barden (Royal Marines), Fatialofa (Exeter), Jarvis (Harlequins), Lilo (Cornish Pirates), Sidoli (Cardiff).

OUT: Cox (Viadana), Higgitt (Llanelli), Hill (Toshiba), Hilton (retired), Hohneck (Viadana), Llewellyn (retired), Morgan (Cardiff), O’Riordan (retired), Pozzebon (released), Strange (Leeds), Taumalolo (Grenoble).

England elite squad: 0.

Prediction: 12th.

WORCESTER

Coach: Mike Ruddock. Captain: Pat Sanderson. Last season: 10th.

IN: B Jones (Doncaster), M Jones (Lon Welsh), Latham (Queensland), Luscombe (Harlequins).

OUT: Best (Ealing), Brown (Lon Scottish), Collier (Launceston), Delport (Kobe Steel), Drahm (Kubota), Evans (Lon Welsh), Feaunati (Calvisano), Gotting (Lon Scottish), Havili (Cornish Pirates), Hickey (Kubota), Morgan (Llandovery), Murphy (Leeds), Quinnell (Viadana), Runciman (Lon Welsh), Odouza (Suntory), Truman (Lon Scottish), Tucker (Ealing), Windo (retired).

England elite squad: 0.
Prediction: 9th.

NEWCASTLE

Coach: Steve Bates. Captain: Phil Dowson. Last season: 11th.

IN: Balding (Gloucester), Davey (Doncaster), Tu’ipulotu (Wellington), Danny Williams (Leeds RL).

OUT: Burke (retired), Dickson (Northampton), Flood (Leicester), Tait (Sale), Woods (Leicester).

England elite squad: 2 (Noon, Wilkinson).

Prediction: 11th.

NORTHAMPTON

Coach: Jim Mallinder. Captain: Bruce Reihana. Last season: Division One champions.

IN: Best (Ulster), Broster (Llanelli), Day (S Francais), Dickens (Saracens), Dickson (Newcastle), Lobbe (Sale), Foden (Sale), Friswell (Coventry), Gray (Doncaster), Mayor (Sale), Mordt (Lon Irish), Wilson (Ulster).

OUT: Browne (Brive), Budgen (Exeter), Emms (Exeter), Fox (Cambridge), Howard (Bayonne), Kydd (Bath), Robinson (Wasps), Rudski (Cambridge), Short (Brive), Tupai (Bedford), Vass (Bedford).

England elite squad: 1 (Hartley).

Prediction: 10th.

*** VIDEO: CLICK HERE TO SEE WASPS AND ENGLAND STARS TACKLE THE NEW SEASON ***