In the wake of the Twickenham capitulation,Ian Ritchie has fixed the highlight firmly on Stuart Lancaster and his team but surely the RFU’s chief executive needs to ask questions of himself?The rankings released by World Rugby on Monday showed Argentina had leapfrogged England, pushing down the beleaguered and bedraggled hosts to eighth after their early departure from the World Cup.
In 2012, or when the Rugby Football Union began planning for the World Cup under the recent chief executive Ian Ritchie,one of its myriad (a very large number) aims was for Stuart Lancasters England side to be among the top two in the world by 2015.
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Source: theguardian.com