Tindall: Irish victory undeserved

MUCH more of this andMartin Johnson is going tohave to start doing something really drastic. Like making repeat offenders stand in the corner or send a note home to their parents or club coaches with the words ‘must do better’.

His players don’t need telling that their discipline is killing them. To a man on Saturday night, they shook their heads ruefully and chastised themselves in a manner which The Da Vinci Code’s mad monk would have surely approved.

There was no dressing, no smokescreen and Mike Tindall was more forthright than most. Some games are won, more again are lost and the Gloucester centre had no hesitation in categorising this latest defeat.