"Given the RFU's penchant for the odd review or six, then why not have another one? Only this time into the suits who run Twickenham." PA's Andrew Baldock writes

Here is a little essay assignment to while away the time over a predicted wet weekend. The Rugby Football Union - please discuss.

Not even the most detailed weather forecast would have predicted dense fog to shroud Twickenham for a month.

Red mist, meanwhile, continues to threaten England head coach Brian Ashton's rural retreat in the west country.

Given the RFU's penchant for the odd review or six, then why not have another one? Only this time into the suits who run Twickenham.

No more post-mortems about England coaches, players and performances for the time being, just a top team of outside management consultants brought in to assess the RFU's image.

I respectfully suggest the words "not" and "good" would follow each other in any opening sentence used to sum up the RFU's efforts since England concluded their 2008 RBS 6 Nations campaign.

RFU chief executive Francis Baron said this week he believes in ''evolution not revolution.'' That is an interesting philosophy, given how one Martin Osborne Johnson is waiting in the wings.

Does Baron seriously think an individual of Johnson's standing will enter quietly, sip softly at his cappuccino, tidy his desk and then go home?

Johnson, it is widely expected, will want to do things his way with his people, and that does not necessarily mean working with existing front-line England coaches Ashton, John Wells and Mike Ford.

Baron continued: ''We are going to strengthen the management structure and there are going to be new appointments and so the overall structure will change, aimed at improving the consistency of England's performances going forward.

''The coaches have all got to be happy with the new structure. I hope they buy into it and we can move forward together.

''I can't guarantee that. There are some pretty feisty individuals on the coaching team who will express strong views, no doubt.

''Somebody might say 'I don't want to work with this bloke'. In my view, it is their call.''

To me, that would see Ashton, who is understood to have been left bewildered and angered by post-Six Nations events, and company being presented with the management structure under Johnson - then they take it or leave it.

In other words, we are going to paint your house pink, and if you don't like it you can always move.

Ashton could hardly feel encouraged by management board chairman Martyn Thomas' offering this week.

England finished runners-up in the World Cup and Six Nations this season - honestly, they did - but Thomas said: ''There are no prizes in life for coming second, and the RFU is determined to drive England back to where we believe it should be.

''The Irish and French teams we beat weren't that great, and Wales can thank us for giving them a Grand Slam.''

Thomas appears to have forgotten Wales would not have achieved such a feat had they not also toppled Ireland at Croke Park, a ground where England lost 43-13 last season.

There we are then Brian, no point in wasting your time calling HQ for support.

Baron, I suggest, should be increasingly concerned about how the organisation he oversees is perceived by the outside world.

If airing dirty laundry in public was an Olympic sport, the RFU would not have a drawer big enough to keep their gold medals in.

Seemingly unable to prevent those from within leaking to various media outlets messages and agendas matters those individuals want in the public domain, the RFU is a sporting body many rugby watchers - I believe - have long since stopped taking seriously.

Their treatment of Ashton has been despicable, and nhing has happened to change my opinion that some sections of the RFU see him as an inconvenience.

We are led to believe the appointment of an England manager - Johnson, of course - could be signed, sealed and settled some time next week.

Only then, one imagines, will the real fall-out begin.