ON the evidence of the last four years it doesn’t.
He has a team around him to help with the decision. Remember, it was a very popular appointment at the time, with near unanimous approval.

Ospreys put it to the piemen

Exeter are a solid team, been down there a few times, apart from them trying to charge £6.50 for a pasty it’s always been fun.

Piece in the Telegrapgh today where reades have selected their choice for the next England captain – something like

3. Brown
2. Hartley 😯 😯
1. Launchberry

Launchberry looks to have a bright future but doesn’t seem to be a leader. In my view it should be Brown or possibly Ford

Spikey Mikey is hanging up his boots.

I’m sure Ireland supporters will wish him well….!

Kyrton having been at the Heineken final where he called Barnes a cheat and then seeing he has binned his chance of being on the Lions tour I wouldn’t want to see that rewarded with the captaincy. Hes a bit old too (?) doesn’t feel like the future.

Pigface, Brown is the least worst choice, plus I think he’ll bring a certain calmness to our decision making 🙂 I am struggling to see other candidates who are likely to be guaranteed starters.

The nasty kiwi biter is also getting good pundit reviews. Buggered if I can work out why – he should be nowhere near an England shirt!
I suspect Launchberry may get it and if not, I’m going for Ed Slater.
Not Brown, he’ll loose his spot to Watson and he’s not good enough on the wing to get another spot. Sub would be my place for Mr Angry.

Its a warm up game for England’s summer tour .

Thanks, got a mailing about the match £82 a ticket so money spinner is clearly what they are hoping for ! Crazy. Can’t say I’d pay more than £30 for a summer friendly, I can watch Dan Carter for £10 in competitve Top 14 game.

Turned on the Pro 12 game last night and managed to utter the previously unheard of words, “Ooh, Blues v Connacht. This could be good.” 🙂

I’ve been enjoying watching Connacht this season but who knew that there were so many South Sea Islanders living in the west of Ireland? 😆

Did Munster send the under 11’s to Rodney Parade? Great win by the Dregs 😆

Ospreys win in Italy, will take any win we can.

Yes Dusautoir a brilliant player, seemed to be able to keep it together when all around him in French rugby were going mad.

Very pleased to see the Leicester re-signings today. Almost all out good players get approaches from the stupid money brigade, just surprised that Worcestet were included in the Manu hunt. No surprise that nobody else was linked with Burns though!

Looks that way, dragons not happy.
I see another Gatland law exception coming on…

I meant the “you have to play in in Wales to be selected”
Unless you’re an established international
Or could be good
Or once went to wales on holiday
Or just want to move for more money

Actually, what the hell is the rule now?

I suspect it’s more a player release issue, asking and English club to allow a valuable player to be released to train and play against the English national side – I’d like to think Bath would be fair about that.

Well Jamie Roberts got to play in a Varsity Match but only until half time and Cambridge went on to lose.

It depends on the players contract. North has a clause in his that allows him to come and go as and when he feels like it if Wales call. Others have had more restrictive contracts. But the the RPA have muddied the waters with “allowing their members” to respond to international call ups, as long as its for England. And the RPA gets a backhander.

What’s daft is that Gatland keeps asking about exceptions. Completely reasonable for any Union to want its best players, playing in their country. You can’t stop them moving away, but you can make it less appealing

DAFUQ? Just looked at the score! What the hell happened there? Did Toulouse just not bother to turn up or something?