"Phil said: 'Why can't we do this on the train?'" It might not be quite the Paris-Istanbul Orient Express, whose inaugural 1883 restaurant coach, panelled in mahogany and teak, ushered in the golden era of railway dining in Europe.
The reaction of the Saracens coaching panel to the subsequent decision suggests they would too.
There needs to be an overhaul of the coaching panel, not least because some of the selection decisions.
Eddie Jones' first job is to assemble a coaching panel and he will feel some pressure to go English.
There is no guarantee that reappointing the current coaching panel will automatically enhance England's chance of success in 2019.
Worsfold was appointed to replace sacked senior coach James Hird in October and completed his assistant coaching panel with the addition of former Gold Coast coach Guy McKenna.
There are loads of Englishmen with something to offer a rejigged coaching panel, including Brian Ashton, Jonny Wilkinson, Shaun Edwards, Martin Johnson, Ben Kay (TV's best analyst) and Rob Baxter.
Its star coaching panel of Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine – lead singer of Maroon 5 – and country music star Blake Shelton has been credited with pulling in viewers.
The gender imbalance which finds Kylie Minogue outnumbered by three male stars on the coaching panel for the BBC talent show The Voice is simply representative of the music industry, the Australian singer has claimed.
When I was on the England coaching panel and we won our Six Nations game in Cardiff three years ago, our work in the first 20 minutes was bang on the money.
It is a season that has tailed off for them, a trend continued here, and so it was the Saracens' coaching panel who were embracing each other wildly come the end.
