In a radio interview earlier this week Graham Rowntree, a member of the England coaching staff, boasted the next two weeks would be good to be an Englishman. How wrong can he be?
Implicit in his thinking is that with just Samoa and Tonga standing between England and a place in the quarter final of the World Cup, two victories will erase previous misdemeanours.
Yet we should never forget the fact last Friday's humliation by South Africa was worse than anything many people had ever seen.
Worse, in fact, than the home defeat to Argentina last November. Worse than the capitulation at Murrayfield in 2006, indeed worse than anything.
Can anyone remember a more disorganised and guileless England team? Perhaps some of the 70s vintage ran it close but they didn't fall from such lofty perches.
Wins against two of rugby's smaller fry can do nothing but make England thankful they weren't in the same group as Ireland who must play Argentina and France.
Comments (1)
Poor old England.It's ok beating third world countries but wait until we come up against the big boys
Posted by derek grimbly | October 8, 2007 3:43 PM
Posted on October 8, 2007 15:43