Lancaster would find it hard to “walk away”

“But for us it’s nice to be here and it’s the first World Cup where we have moved every week”.

The reward for the win for the Australians was a quarterfinal next weekend against Scotland, which placed second in Pool B. Wales will take on the two-time champion South Africans, back at Twickenham, in the first quarterfinal.

“International visitors tend to go to London, particularly the Gulf market”. From our literature, Shakespeare in Stratford or the Bronte sisters in Yorkshire, or where films are set like Bond.

“We want rugby clubs to remain an integral part of their local communities and improving their facilities and pitches is one way of achieving that aim”, added Grainger.

With the Lions in New Zealand, where his team were thumped 3-0, Woodward was accused of favouring England players from 2003 and criticised for not letting his staff call New Zealand the All Blacks, expanding the budget to £10million, hiring Alastair Campbell as press officer and splitting the tour into two camps for mid-week games and Tests.

“The support has been phenomenal around the country”.

From my position, what I will say right now, is that I believe that England Rugby shouldn’t be afraid to want to play rugby because after all points mean prizes.

Easter grabbed his hat-trick on the hour mark after another rolling maul and the floodgates were truly open.

And Yates adds: “Yorkshire has had a cracking few years in worldwide tourism”. Despite their 21-3 lead at half time, they had not really managed to impress – the points were coming, but they were always going to against this opposition.

“What we also see is a shift from go-see to go-experience”.

“He’s a huge player for us, and he did well again yesterday”.

Come the Six Nations in February, it would surprise nearly no one if the English coaching team had a very different look to it, Lancaster himself stating “It’s not just in my hands” when asked about his future”. There’s a real spirit of life carrying on. If more than 50,000 people can turn up in Manchester for a match as dead as a dodo, why don’t the RFU take England around the country more? It is about being sensible and making sensible messages. Then we had the Olympics – and we grew out of adversity. We owed ourselves a big performance. “We looked into each other’s eyes and we said we gave it our best”.

“The sun shone, the tubes worked, ticketing worked and security was fine”.

“The frustration will be there forever, for not nailing that game and putting us under pressure for the Australia game”, Lancaster said, recalling the nail-biter against Wales. “That’s the real power of sport”.

“The World Cup has been disappointing but there can not be any knee-jerk reactions in the review, it has got to be thorough”.

Organisations involved in planning Newcastle’s role in the Rugby World Cup say the tournament should leave a lasting legacy, not just for schoolchildren, for the entire North East. They tried to play two trial games back to back, and in the second game, I was too exhausted, apparently.

“We were 22-12 up against Wales and not far away”. Was it worth doing?

“It is the same at a football tournament”.

“We’ve seen a remarkable difference in the attitudes of many students since playing rugby and we’re looking forward to continuing the programme and giving younger pupils the same opportunity”.