Farrell is finished as England RU coach IMO. I do believe his influence was big - you only had to see the negative approach - it harmed back to the days when he captained the weakest British RL team in our history. We had to catch for damage limitation, he's now coaching England RU in the same way despite the fact they are much stronger than their oppositions other than the All Blacks. Shows he has no understanding of coaching. Ford was not a great player, rather a decent one. Farrell and Robinson were very good players in a period of weakness in the sport. None of the three were fit to lace the boots of Adrian Morley or Sam Burgess in RL terms. Those two are the best British produced RL players of the last 25 years by a country mile (although I am a great fan of James Graham who runs them close).

If shaving the rough edges off his accent gets Jason Robinson more media work and enables him to feed his family, why shouldn't he do it?

Bet there are plenty on these forums who have a "phone voice" for when they are speaking to clients at work. This is no different.

It's a short career and they were offered a good deal.
Regarding Farrell, you have to laugh that after he was well past his best, had two dodgy knees, and had just spent a season at prop, the RFU spent a bucket load of cash to sign him as a centre!

One of the worst decisions ever made in our game was London Broncos not offering Edwards a coaching or assistant coaching job. Wasps gave him an opportunity in a game he then knew only a little about. The rest is history.

If you listen to any of the players from Wasps or Wales about his intensity, attention to detail etc you will see what he is all about. Our loss their gain. At some stage however I do believe, because of family ties he will return to coach "up North" I just hope it's at Wigan.

Agree almost entirely with this but I would ask the question whether Wigan weren't just as culpable as London in regard to not offering him a coaching position. Especially given their knowledge of his potential in that area and their greater resources.

Will we be saying something similar about Sinfield in a few years time, now that he has gone over to the dark side ?

Edwards did not want to come back up north. He wanted to stay in London and be involved in bringing his young lad up.

I doubt it. Kevin's been pretty clear that sees himself in an administration role once the boots are finally hung up, rather than among the coaching ranks.

Although whichever code you're in, you wouldn't mind having him around to do some consultancy work with your goalkickers.

Jason Robinson is the only one who left in his prime.

Edwards retired from rugby and created a career for himself coaching in RU. It's not like he was offered a job in League.
Farrell left to play at the end of his career. He couldn't have gone on much longer in League.

It bothers me that RL hasn't given them an opportunity but I have no problem with them personally.
Their achievements in Rugby League are the same no matter what they do afterwards.

Fair point. He did; I'd forgotten.

The manner in which they scheduled England's final group game would suggest that perhaps they do.

We'll never see Sinfield again in our sport.