Rob Andrew Quotations

That was rubbish. Two teams having a real off-day. It's difficult to explain performances like that.

We are looking at his training schedule, as we do with all the players. He has been extremely unlucky with the trauma injuries he has suffered in the last few years, but we are in an impact sport and there is no way of preventing these things.

I hope he will have a full game with us against Bath on March 27. It is touch and go.

I think it pretty much puts paid to the autumn internationals, so it will most likely be over two years that he hasn't played for England.

I think it pretty much puts paid to the autumn internationals,

It took nine months for Mathew to get over the experience. Next time they have to be certain that they want him and then stick with him.

Our actual level of performance has been as good as I can recall in the last five or six years. We've just not had enough breaks and results have slipped away from us. This game will be a good yardstick for us. Not one single person in the land expects us to win.

It wasn't even borderline, it was about two yards forward.

To be without Phil for such a length of time is a major setback, but he is a strong character and I am sure he will come back from this.

The attrition rate and the physicality we see in the game these days is immense, as you could see from the six Premiership matches last weekend, some of which were basically 80 minutes of sheer warfare.