Rob Kitson, of the Guardian, believes time is running out for Rob Andrew.
"Rob Andrew is a clever political animal with a remarkably thick skin. Sometimes it can be a conflicting marriage. The average rhino would have fetched its coat long ago and left the Rugby Football Union's offices in search of a quieter watering hole. But Andrew is still in situ as the RFU's elite rugby director, a pillar of rectitude amid crumbling ruins. Or, at least, that is how he would like people to regard him.
Others feel differently. Very differently. "For my money, I don't see what he has done in five years," said Austin Healey, now a sharp-eyed analyst for ESPN. "I have got no idea what he has done. And for him to say: 'Oh look at the Under-20s, they have gone on to great things in the World Cup' – that has got sod all to do with it …that is down to the clubs who have handled their players well. The RFU can't come out of this in its current state." Others are even ruder. "The only time he [Andrew] shows any balls is when he's fighting for his own position," muttered another disgruntled former international."
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