Quite a bit of comment over the last few days of the utter folly of discarding Johnno as England coach for that bluffer Lanaster.
England should dismiss head coach Stuart Lancaster after their early World Cup exit, say ex-internationals Mark Cueto and Kyran Bracken.
Saturday’s loss to Australia meant England became the first hosts ever to be knocked out in the pool stage.
“He’s won one game in a World Cup so I think that says it all,” Cueto, who won 55 England caps, told BBC Radio 5 live.
“This is four and a half years of failure - I just don’t see how he can recover from it,” added Bracken.
“The argument is that Clive Woodward at one stage after the 1999 World Cup was given another chance, but he’d only been there for about two years.”
Former Sale wing Cueto highlighted that 2003 World Cup-winning captain Martin Johnson left his position as manager in 2011, despite leading England to the last eight of that year’s World Cup.
“Johnson had 18 months to prepare us for that World Cup. We got to the quarter-finals and got knocked out by a team that went on to the final,” he said.