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“Unless the Rugby Football Union says otherwise – and they have given no indication of doing so – I’ll continue until my contract expires at the end of August. This time last year, the coach was in engagingly optimistic mood about England’s World Cup prospects and clearly relishing every minute of his reign as England’s head honcho. That, too, has changed; since the tactically naïve quarter-final calamity against the Springboks in Paris, Woodward’s future has been repeatedly called into question. Up front, Johnson and Darren Garforth are struggling, Tim Rodber is short of matches and Richard Cockerill has been given the bum’s rush What a difference 11 months make.Just ask Clive Woodward.

It is just possible, though, that Martin Corry, the career No 8 currently performing Johnson’s front-jumping role at Leicester, will get the nod. Corry has been a revelation in recent weeks, notably in the Premiership victory at Bath just after Christmas, and it is becoming apparent that the more rigid disciplines of a second row’s game suit his muscular talents.Startlingly, only six of the side that won so handsomely in Dublin last season are likely to make the Twickenham line-up. Among the backs, Jeremy Guscott has retired, Kyran Bracken is still months away from fitness after an operation to remove part of a disc from his back, David Rees is still at war with his own body and Dan Luger has not played since the World Cup. With Danny Grewcock of Saracens also on the longish-term injury list, England may well find themselves in need of a whole new engine room.The obvious solution would be to pair Bristol’s Garath Archer, the third lock in England’s World Cup party, with the recalled and thoroughly in-form Wasp, Simon Shaw. “Recovery can take a long time, and there is no guarantee of success. I’m taking a fairly conservative approach at the moment, in the hope that the inflammation will ease and I’ll be able to start running again.” Blind hope is not enough, though; the smart money says that Johnson has next to no chance of going toe to toe with Jeremy Davidson and Malcolm O’Kelly in a little over three weeks. I haven’t ruled that out.”If at all possible, the Leicester lock intends to avoid the surgeon and his scalpel like the proverbial plague “An Achilles operation is not the best,” he said.

“I’ve had this problem since the end of last season, but the discomfort is simply too great for me to carry on playing at the moment. Basically, I can’t run, and I have no intention of returning to rugby until I’m 100 per cent right. No one can predict when that will be.”But all this business in the papers about my career being at an end is a gross exaggeration of the situation. It may be that I’ll feel able to play a club match before the Irish come to Twickenham on 5 February. Ninety seconds later, he said something that sounded very much like the opposite: “I might need surgery, which would put me out for the season.”
Johnson’s condition is so peculiar that he probably has as good an idea of his recovery timetable as any of the specialists he has consulted over the past five weeks or so. Under the circumstances, it is entirely understandable that the red rose captain should feel confused. “I’m still hopeful of making our first Six Nations match against Ireland next month,” he said yesterday.

Ninety seconds later, he said something that sounded very much like the opposite: “I might need surgery, which would put me out for the season.”

Sports Medicine has come a very long way since the days of wet sponges and Ralgex, but there is not a doctor on earth who can tell Martin Johnson when he might shake off the effects of an inflamed Achilles tendon and return to the dark, dingy depths of the England second row. Under the circumstances, it is entirely understandable that the red rose captain should feel confused. “I’m still hopeful of making our first Six Nations match against Ireland next month,” he said yesterday. Sports Medicine has come a very long way since the days of wet sponges and Ralgex, but there is not a doctor on earth who can tell Martin Johnson when he might shake off the effects of an inflamed Achilles tendon and return to the dark, dingy depths of the England second row.

Australia captain Ricky Ponting hit his 39th Test century as his side took command of the final match of their series against Pakistan in Tasmania on Thursday.

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