JP couldn't have been far off winning a bench place at this afternoon's rugger match. Sat behind Andy Farrell, presumably as a guest of the RFU. Lets hope he isn't tempted into some coaching capacity by the rugger toffs.

He handed the Jerseys to the Union players last night, nothing more.

He did tweet it was an honour to present the "England RU lads their jerseys"

Its only supporters who hold such old fashioned prejudices, professional players respect each code as it should be.

It's quite an unprecedented move by the RFU, having a current league pro as a guest of honour. Hope they aren't trying to butter him up

Stuart Lancaster ex-Leeds RU player & coach, current England RU team boss, invited both JP & Sir Kev to address the England RU squad last year or earlier this year, so yesterday's events are not unique.

Too true. Sadly these dinosaurs still expect their prejudiced views to be taken seriously.

I am gradually bit by bit losing my prejudices Juan,But there are supposedly educated RU Journalists that have lots more prejudices and are far more dinosaurial than a lot of us.

Are you talking about John Inverdale?

Maybe JP is going to help Farrell coach the England backs. They can't possibly be any worse than they are at the moment under Farrell's astute management.



Maybe JP could help Chris Robshaw with simple decision making as well. "Really Chris? You want to kick for goal when 4 points down and 120 seconds left to play - and it's going to take 70 seconds to take the kick (although it would probably take less time if Owen Farrell could just shut up and do as he's told)".

My old club used to play Inverdale's team. He used to get the $h!t kicked out of him.

Rugby Union is a great game to watch

Rugby League is a great game to watch



You just need to appreciate each game on its own merits, and not compare them