Wouldn’t it make for a pleasant world if more coaches could justify losses and/or sustaining their international contracts by maintaining an ‘upbeatness’? Granted the Poms, and Johnsons current lack of player depth, surely no player of his calibre could be too comfortable with the pool of mediocrity England are currently lurking in?

Albeit, good to see the upbeat Johnson has a profound plan to ressurect the hopes of the English,
“We will tweak what needs to be tweaked, and hopefully be better for it next week..”

Will you Martin? Wow. Hey, given that you’re at the helm of what could become a perrenially underachieving rugby nation in the next few years, perhaps a career in poetry?