The bad news? Nick Cain is right. No slight on Nick, of course: he has always known his onions when it comes to the meat-and-gravy portion of the union game, so when he argues, in characteristically trenchant style, that England are missing a trick by ignoring the obvious Test potential of the young Gloucester prop Afolabi Fasogbon, due attention should be paid.

Unfortunately, head coach Steve Borthwick would sooner eat his own cauliflower ears than engage in public debate.
And the good news? There is still time for the coaching hierarchy to perform a Brown-Cameron tribute act by swallowing...