I WOULD like to congratulate Nick Cain for his excellent article on the Dylan Hartley captain saga, never have truer words been said.
I do not know what Hartley’s mystic powers of leadership are, but quite frankly I fail to see them.
How can you have a leader of men who goes into battle but after 55 minutes departs as he cannot last the full 80? In my opinion Micky Haywood, who is Hartley’s understudy at Saints, is a far better all-round hooker.
As for Eddie Jones having the temerity of singling out Courtney Lawes for having lost his fire, anybody who saw the Saints v Wasps game...