Robert Kitson’s highlights and lowlights of the 2011-12 rugby union season

Our rugby union correspondent Robert Kitson has presented his highlights and lowlights of the 2011-12 rugby union season

Graham Henry scorns fear factor in England’s wasteland of talent

Robert Kitson: Graham Henry, the former New Zealand coach, has shone a harsh light on the English game's failings and the worst is a persisting failure to win quick ball

Six Nations grand slam is harder target than World Cup final

Shaun Edwards: There is no neutral ground in the Six Nations and no chance of meeting Japan or Canada, either

MBMs we wish we’d done in 2011 – No4: England’s post-Dwarfgate meeting

Martin Johnson leads a cards-on-the-table, clear-the-air discussion in the latest in our six-part fantasy MBM series

Graham Rowntree says RFU’s England World Cup review was ‘painful’

The former Leicester, England and Lions prop said the fallout from the failed World Cup campaign in New Zealand had led to 'dark times'

From New Zealand glory to England’s indignity: 12 months in Test rugby

Martin Pengelly: The All Blacks won gold, Sam Warburton saw red and Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu turned the air blue – 2011 was a fascinating year

Twickileaks fallout is hindering RFU’s search for new chief executive

Leaked reports from Twickenham are making it difficult for the RFU to recruit a new chief executive

RFU politics is main suspect after players are hung out to dry

Robert Kitson: England insiders view the leak of the Rugby World Cup reports as a calculated attempt to discredit as many people as possible at Twickenham to ease the return of Sir Clive Woodward

Twickenham calls in ex-Scotland Yard detective to investigate leaks

The RFU has called in a former Scotland yard detective after private statements relating to England's disastrous World Cup were made public

The Wales way is not the only way – but it must be a better way

Shaun Edwards: In a rugby squad, and particularly one going away to a World Cup, there has to be a general feeling that you are all pulling together and going in the same direction

Manu Tuilagi in more hot water with Twickenham after World Cup debacle

Manu Tuilagi has reportedly been summoned by the Rugby Football Union, from whom he can expect further punishment over his breach of equipment regulations during the pool game against Georgia