Well, when I wear my tinfoil hat, those aliens won't look into my thoughts

Think you mean aluminium, tin is soooo last century...

Everything about the English RFU's campaign in their World Cup has been a disaster - the order of the England fixtures was misguided at best and arrogant at worst, and as for waving shedloads of cash under prop forward Sam Burgess's nose and then expecting him to play in the centres after only a few months trying to learn the arcane rules of their version of the game, words fail me.

Do any us believe there is a chance we could sign Sam burgess? My neighbour used to be a scout for the wire and told me how we could have signed him on a junior contract/y t s type deal for 80 quid a week a few years back but Simon didn't want to do any deal in an underhanded way. Credit to Simon and his morals but it's fair to say Sam won't be on 80 quid a week for his next club

Incisive...I do hope you stay and offer further worthwhile contributions.

If only I had a "neighbour who used to be a scout for the Wire".

I have a neighbour whose cat makes "full use" of my garden.

Tbh i would not be surprised if Sam does leave Barth that he would go back to Oz where by all accounts he has a good relationship with the club & a totally different lifestyle to the UK. Who knows, at the end of his rugby career, he could be wowing cinema audiences in a Russell Crowe epic.

A very good article on Sam by Oliver Holt MoS Fairly and squarely behind Sam Burgess, laying not just the world cup fiasco but Unions stagnation at the RFU door, a good honest article, tells it as he sees it.

Agree it was a more honest assessment of what has gone on with Sam and his mismanagement at club and national level