As barely a year has passed since England's disastrous Rugby World Cup campaign levered open the can of worms that was the sport's administration south of the border, it is tempting to ask Sir Ian McGeechan what on earth he had been smoking in the moments before he agreed to lead a review of the affairs of the Twickenham-based Rugby Football Union.
As barely a year has passed since England's disastrous Rugby World Cup campaign levered open the can of worms that was the sport's administration south of the border, it is tempting to ask Sir Ian McGeechan what on earth he had been smoking in the moments before he agreed to lead a review of the affairs of the Twickenham-based Rugby Football Union.
Sir Ian McGeechan is optimistic about this Scotland team Photograph: PA
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But then, McGeechan has a bit of previous in these matters, and far from being daunted by the back stabbing, the plots and the Machiavellian intrigues of the RFU, he can reflect on another period of his life where such shenanigans were also commonplace. Or, as he puts it himself: "After SRU politics, this is easy."
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