I'm not so sure to be honest - Absolutely agree he turned around a team which was in total disarray but I think he has pretty much plateaued now.

Some strange decisions in terms of selection, a team for me that doesn't really have a settled identity and a team that has a mental fragility when it matters.

I am not sure Woodward is the man, certainly Rob Andrew isn't - I would like to see England look south of the equator for their next coach - which will probably give most of the RFU old farts heart attacks but with the pool of players England can draw from I think a SH coach could actually be a huge benefit.

As far as the rules go, it's a website not a democracy - Hambo 3/6/2014

what he said + 2

Sometimes I set out for Ludlow
Sometimes I end up in Chepstow

I'd like to see someone like Jamie Joseph from the Highlanders get the gig but cant see it in a million years

As far as the rules go, it's a website not a democracy - Hambo 3/6/2014

Not even sure if Lancaster will go if England fail to qualify - which has not happened yet anyway. I believe that to win a world cup you have to beat the best teams and am looking forward to the Aussie match.

Red and Blue Army!

Yes and no. He dropped a bollock by first picking the wrong team, then compounding the error by making the most ridiculous set of substitutions imaginable. That's what really cost England the game. We had the momentum and were ten points ahead when, for no apparent reason, he subs the halfbacks bringing in two players with a completely different style and that is the moment everything started to go to pieces. Robs***e made an awful call but Bomber carries the can for the loss.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

The real knock on Lancaster is that we have the players but not the team. He has the raw material to certainly deliver a semi-final, maybe a final and, on a good day, winning the Cup. Only the ABs are demonstrably better and in a one-off game, anything can happen. But he's done a poor job, since initially sorting out the mess he inherited (and we all agree he did that very well), of exploiting the resources at his disposal.

As last week proved, there's no real tactical plan, there's no adherence to building in a clear direction, a commitment to players based on preference rather than ability and so on. It's all come to reek of the usual English sporting myopia and mediocrity. If we learned anything from 2003, surely it was have a plan two years before the RWC, prepare thoroughly to execute it and don't change it. At this level, Bomber is starting to resemble a rabbit caught in the headlights. And even though I don't want SCW back, why are the RFU not at least using him in an advisory role? He does know what it takes.

As far as Robs***e goes, saying he and not Bomber is responsible for the Wales loss is laughable. Who picked him, after all? The captain is the coaches voice on the pitch. For a start, Robs***e shouldn't be in the side and he's only there because of Bomber's absolute intransigence, blind loyalty and refusal to pick his best available openside (Fatty) because he plays in France. Second, Saturday was the THIRD (count 'em) time Robs***e made that call and the third time it's failed (Hint to Robs***e: it's not a very good call). So surely the coach should have nipped that idiocy in the bud long before the game and told him "never do that again on my watch." And thirdly, his unnecessary substitutions and not the penalty call cost us the game anyway. As to how Wigglesworth even got into the squad we can only wonder.

This week's selection against Australia will speak volumes. Bomber is damned if does and damned if he doesn't. If he reverts to Ford, he looks clueless. If he sticks to Farrell, he looks obstinate. If he picks Robs***e he looks desperate. If he doesn't pick him, he looks disloyal. I'm hearing a lot of rumours that there are divisions in the camp with the pack not happy with Wiggy (they look amazingly under-prepared for a scrum at World Cup time) and quite what Faz Senior is doing there I have no idea. He wasn't even a good Union player. Is the committee still just trying to get a return on its original investment in him? And why does he seemingly have so much influence?

The biggest thing we have going for us on Saturday is Poite. In recent years the Australian scrum has had major problems when he's been teacher. That said, if Marler spends another match boring in every time there's a set-piece, sooner or later someone is going to start pinging it. I can't believe he's got away with what he's been doing so far.

BTW Dylan played for us yesterday in the "friendly" at Sarries. Time for one of the squad to get injured I think.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.