Now that those who run the top echelon of English rugby - the national side -
have been (more or less) sorted out, they will find Olly Barkley waiting.
The same Barkley who stepped into the breach early in last year’s World Cup
and whose international career has been put on hold because of a pending
court appearance, although he has been playing his socks off for Bath.

Andy Robinson could become the next coach of Scotland after the country’s tour
to Argentina in June. Robinson, Brian Ashton’s predecessor as England head
coach before being dismissed by the RFU 17 months ago, has moved a step
closer towards what would once have seemed the unlikeliest of appointments
by agreeing to become the forwards coach under Frank Hadden, the head coach,
for the two-match series against the Pumas.

It’s nice people are seeing how funny the Welsh are,” says Russell T. Davies.
“I do think we have a history of being miserable and small and damp on
screen. Don’t you?”

After 16 months away from Test rugby, Andy Robinson, the former England head
coach now in charge at Edinburgh, is to return to international coaching,
this time with Scotland. He has been drafted in alongside Sean Lineen, the
Glasgow coach, to try to reproduce the winning formula the pair found with
the Scotland A team when the full national side goes to Argentina in June.

Andy Robinson, the former England head coach, has agreed to join the Scotland
coaching team ahead of their summer tour to Argentina.