"This election isn't just a simple case of musical chairs, with the country's leading rugby officials divvying up responsibilities and the advantages that go with these." John Palfrey asks who'll succeed Bernard Lapasset.

"There was a time when you would not have called Johnson assured but he appears to have added that quality to his armoury as well and it was very much in evidence as he held his first press conference." John Taylor writes

"He is, essentially, the chief executive of the playing side of the RFU, a manager of managers but is he really necessary? What has changed since this new post was created?" John Taylor questions Rob Andrew's role