DYLAN Hartley might have preferred something more poetic when he was axed as England captain by Eddie Jones. Something like the opening line of O Captain! My Captain!, the Walt Whitman poem penned after the death of American President Abraham Lincoln, which continues with the line, “our fearful trip is done”.
However, according to Hartley, there was nothing empathetic about the words that Jones used to tell his first captain, with whom he shared a Grand Slam and an 18-match winning streak, that their journey together was over.
It was more your basic Anglo- Saxon as Fast Eddie sa...