Rewind the clocks back to the autumn of 2015 and England have been unceremoniously dumped out of their own World Cup at the pool stage.
The Rugby Football Union are left with egg on their faces, and as is the way in professional sport, somebody has to pay the ultimate price for this unacceptable failure.
Surprise surprise it's the coaching team who are thrown under the bus with Stuart Lancaster, Andy Farrell, Mike Catt, and Graham Rowntree shown the door.
