No appetite for the boardroom

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Mick Cleary runs the rule over the intriguing clash between Andy Robinson's Scotland and Martin Johnson's England this weekend in The Daily Telegraph.
"Just more than three years ago Andy Robinson was sacked by England. On Saturday evening he will stand, narrow-eyed and scowling as is his wont, as Flower of Scotland skirls into life and justifiably wonder if his opponents at Murrayfield are any better now than when he was in charge. "If Robinson's Scotland side were to win, then the record of Martin Johnson, eight wins in what will be 18 matches by then, is not a whole heap more impressive than that of Robinson, who suffered 13 losses in his 22 matches in charge of England. Mind you, Robinson was unceremoniously moved aside following a miserable run of eight defeats in nine games, a terminal state of affairs in modern sport. "Robinson has admitted to his own naivety in not fighting political battles. The one-time warrior of the rugby pitch had little stomach for the double-dealing of the committee room. Robinson had stop-start access to players and a schedule over which he had little control. All that has been rectified at a cost of £110 million to the Rugby Football Union. Johnson can pick and choose his men, play them and rest them as he sees fit, much to the chagrin of James Haskell's employer at Stade Français, Max Guazzini."