John Westerby in Saturday’s 1st November issue of The Times has written an excellent article “How Lancashire became English coaching hotbed.” If you can get hold of a copy it’s worth it. We’ll quote a small section: “Whenever England’s players sit down to be briefed by their coaches at Twickenham this autumn, the dominant strains in the changing room are likely to carry a distinctive Lancastrian accent. The addition of Lee Blackett to the management means that England’s three senior coaches — Steve Borthwick, the head coach, Richard Wigglesworth, his assistant, now primarily entrusted with defence, and Blackett, the attack coach — all hail from the same corner of Lancashire, stretching from Preston to Blackpool, that has proved particularly fertile