Brian Ashton

Joe Maddock did a good job in the centre last week and he deserves to stay in the side.

Joe Maddock did a good job in the centre last week and he deserves to stay in the side.

I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons read more

I'm not going to get involved in the contractual details. I don't want to do that. One of the reasons I came into the job was to get away from that sort of thing.

This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England read more

This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England twenty-two, if not the starting XV.

I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.

I feel I've got unfinished business at international level.

There were some fantastic matches between the two sides in the late eighties and into the early nineties. Perhaps not read more

There were some fantastic matches between the two sides in the late eighties and into the early nineties. Perhaps not so much with the first team as these tended to be second team matches played on a Friday night, but that did not stop the two sides from going at one another, and I expect that to be the main theme on Saturday evening. We will both have a go at one another within the spirit of the game.