Comments on: Mallett rebuffs alleged RFU approach for England job

By: Staggy

Staggy — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 06:28:32 +0000

Same old RFU. I am a little nervous about believing an ex coach turned analyst as most of them will say anything to get publicity, but the RFU has made a complete pigs ear of these appointments time and time again, and haven’t issued a proper denial so it is probably true. Isn’t it time the fans got a governing body that was fit for purpose? Had high hopes for Ritchie……

By: Geat

Geat — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 19:03:34 +0000

Can you link me to where he said that? I’d like a quote from the man himself, not a journalist passing it off as fact.

By: Benjit

Benjit — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 18:55:09 +0000

“Mallett said the RFU had been in touch, but that he had rebuffed them.”

Sounds like he was approached by someone? Or was it a hoax caller?

By: Benjit

Benjit — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 18:52:57 +0000

Except that he said he was approached by the RFU?

By: Geat

Geat — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 15:49:39 +0000

Where does he say he was approached? He doesn’t. It’s pre-emptive, but people are reading into it that he was contacted by the RFU. SCW has said something similar.

By: Dick Lishman

Dick Lishman — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 14:39:37 +0000

Why don’t they go for Peter de Villiers, he defintely open for offers!!

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 14:36:41 +0000

The players don’t want to get involved, so they’re thinking ‘Sh*t, hit the panic buttons’

By: Geat

Geat — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 14:36:21 +0000

Pure conjecture on The Rugby Blog’s part. Mallett turning it down isn’t the same as him being approached.

By: harlequin

harlequin — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 14:00:07 +0000

It is extremely sensible to sound out others to establish options should the review(as it absolutely must)decide Lancaster is way out of his depth and grossly overrates himself.

By: Benjit

Benjit — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 12:09:00 +0000

C’mon Liono, it wa a bad error, but Italy had depleted resources and he gambled and lost. At least he learned from his mistake and didn’t repeat it. SL has played a flanker in the centres for the most part of his reign, despite the fact that England have mostly looked a better team when Barritt has been absent.

By: twelvestocks

twelvestocks — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:56:07 +0000

That’s the third account in the last 2 days along the lines of, “Not after the way they treated me last time”.

By: Liono

Liono — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:43:39 +0000

Thank you for some sense here Leon, Mallett’s name gets banded around far too often in this, it was the same in 2011, people seem to forget this is the “genius” who picked a flanker to play at scrum half in an international fixture!!