I am delighted to see him back again. He's a creative player who will help the club move forward over the next few years.

Joe Maddock did a good job in the centre last week and he deserves to stay in the side.

I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.

I think the operation has been successful, so it is going to be two or three weeks before he is fit and available for selection.

There has been a transformation - you can feel it among the players - but I can hold my hand up and say that is not down to me coaching on the field. You'd be better off asking Michael Foley and Richard Graham about that because they have been in charge, not me.

This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England twenty-two, if not the starting XV.

I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons I came into the job was to get away from that sort of thing.

In my opinion, we looked the more challenging side, but we made too many silly errors which gifted them soft points.