Brian Moore believes that little has been learned by the England management after a disappointing Heineken Cup campaign for the clubs, in The Daily Telegraph.

"The percentage has remained fairly static since the advent of professionalism and to choose this moment to visit the ills of the current English game on this statistic lacks logic. There may be a case regarding the longer-term development of English rugby but that has to take into account all the previous results, including the winning of a World Cup and reaching another final. "The fact is that the form shown by both the teams and players in the Guinness Premiership has, at times, not even reached the standard of the Magners League. The inability of either to sustain a coherent pattern of play and produce a consistent run of victories indicates that it is not just in the Heineken Cup that the deficit in performance has been apparent. "The one bright note for England was the indication given by Northampton’s contingent of prospective young England players that they can make the step from club to international rugby, but their narrow loss to Munster also highlighted that in some crucial respects they are not yet the equal of their Celtic counterparts and that only experience will bridge the gap."