Martin Samuel, writing for the Daily Mail, wades in on the leaked reports debate.
"Across 101 pages, it is all there. The corrupting influence of money, the divide between old and new, duff executives, poorly conceived plans, clashes of culture and ego; the parlous state of English rugby laid bare.
The Rugby Football Union wanted a review, and now they have one. Even Frank Rich, the New York Times theatre critic known as the Butcher of Broadway, never penned anything quite as savage as this.
The three reports now being studied by the Professional Game Board tell a sorry tale of a sport on the point of implosion. The players, greedy, unprofessional and conflicted; the coaches, inadequate, lazy and outdated; the management, absent, absent, absent."
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