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Rob Andrew is a stupid, mouse-faced tit

Apologies for the abusive title, but this bloke manages to find new ways to wind us up every single week.  If he is not arguing the toss in the press with Clive Woodward (who, remember, actually achieved with England); treating decent men in an abhorrent manner; or abusing foreign countries he is doing something else to demonstrate once again what a despicable person and leader he is.

This week he has chosen to speak an obscene amount of drivel about the England coaching set up. "I'm very happy with where the coaching team is," the gobby underachiever told the BBC, ""When you play against the three best teams in the world on consecutive weeks you find out exactly where you are and what you need to do - we've found out a lot of things."  But what have they found that they did not know before, particularly in the forwards?

Since before the last World Cup, the English pack has produced quick ball with very little consistency,  amazingly this grew even worse in the Autumn as the ball was not just slow it was frequently being turned over.  Added to this, personnel are now also being penalised in their generally clueless attempts to secure possession at the breakdown.  The single person responsible for this is John Wells, and has been for nigh on two years.  In those two years, every single area that he has responsibility for has gone backwards: breakdown, scrummage (alongside Rowntree), lineout, pods, everything.    

Brian Smith can be forgiven, he has been in his job for less than four months and a backs coach can do nothing without a platform to work with - the platform the England forwards are currently providing is akin to one you would see on a wedding video sent to You've Been Framed.

The English rugby public can handle losing at this stage - we know where the team is at presently - but being treated like idiots and expecting us to believe this dreck we cannot. 

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Rob Andrew is a stupid, mouse-faced tit

Apologies for the abusive title, but this bloke manages to find new ways to wind us up every single week.  If he is not arguing the toss in the press with Clive Woodward (who, remember, actually achieved with England); treating decent men in an abhorrent manner; or abusing foreign countries he is doing something else to demonstrate once again what a despicable person and leader he is.

This week he has chosen to speak an obscene amount of drivel about the England coaching set up. "I'm very happy with where the coaching team is," the gobby underachiever told the BBC, ""When you play against the three best teams in the world on consecutive weeks you find out exactly where you are and what you need to do - we've found out a lot of things."  But what have they found that they did not know before, particularly in the forwards?