“Of course, we feel we have let people down, but in professional sport you can’t go round wearing a hair-shirt and apologising forever. You have to get on with it. All I know from my time in New Zealand is that they have a rugby ball in their hand from the age of four, and no-one wants to be in TOWIE [The Only Way is Essex] or be a footballer, they want to be an All Black. They play touch rugby from a young age and in good weather. If I had one thought, it would be to make rugby a summer sport.”