England fly-half Toby Flood reflects on their exit from the Rugby World Cup in The Daily Telegraph.
"I wanted time to do a bit of soul-searching after our World Cup exit.
Life doesn’t get much darker than the moments in a changing room after a defeat like ours by France and that walk helped me to make sense of it.
"Looking back, there was nothing in our preparations that at the time didn’t feel right. We literally gave everything to be as good as we could and did not cut any corners. We knew France were in trouble and the whole group probably didn’t realise just how dangerous they would be once their players started to play for themselves. Until you experience the intensity of a World Cup, perhaps it is difficult to get a sense of that."
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