Stuart Barnes

Like, I, I...

Stuart Barnes wrote a column about he hasn't deserved the extension.

It's not, it's not an extension based on performance.

It's, for me, it's an extension to, to make the RFU's life more straightforward.

And I, I, I don't think...

I think there, there needs to be more scrutiny on an annual basis.

And as Stuart Barnes wrote in his piece, the Six Nations Championship is an annual examination of where you are in, just in the Northern Hemisphere.

And England have had one second place- And then, you know, they've been, they were dreadful this year, second place the year before, was it fourth or fifth the year before that.

So, yeah, going back to the Jeremy Guscott thing to start with, when I got married the second time, he was my best man at my wedding, so we must have had some...

But he had a massive argument ten minutes before he took it on the road with Stuart Barnes, because they're always bloody arguing on the field, those two, because they both had a similar mindset about playing with freedom, play what you feel.

That's where the phrase came from, play what you feel, not only what you see, play out what you feel.

And, yeah, I remember Jerry at the end of one session because I got all the players together.

I could sense some of the ... 'Cause I, I do, I mean, uh, I, I read for, for better or worse, I read what they're writing in the papers over there, and I notice their comments section too.

They get filled up with New Zealanders and South Africans being outraged about things that Daniel Schofield or Stuart Barnes or someone like that have made.

I, I th- I think they're great writers.

They're really worth reading.

early 80s.

I was watching with Stuart Barnes and Jeremy Guscott in the 80s.

I was very lucky.

I mean, imagine little Bath having what is effectively the England team.