Lewis Moody admits as captain he should have banned his England team-mates from going out at night during the World Cup.
Concerns surfaced early in campaign
Lewis Moody admits as captain he should have banned his England team-mates from going out at night during the recent World Cup campaign.
The side's campaign in New Zealand was dogged by repeated stories of off-field bad behaviour, the most high profile being a night out in a Queensland bar which made headlines, in part because of security footage showing Mike Tindall in company with a blonde woman.
Moody has since retired from international rugby but says alarm bells were ringing from the moment the squad arrived in New Zealand.
In an extract from his book, Mad Dog: An Englishman, serialised in the Mail On Sunday, Moody said: "I had been growing concerned about the attitude in the camp, which had become apparent pretty much from the moment we arrived in Auckland.
"We were on the other side of the world, a lot of the guys were young, well-known, wealthy and believed they were invincible. I remember thinking that some were not quite in the right mind-set."
He calls some of the behaviour "totally unacceptable" and wrote: "If I could change one thing, knowing some of the characters we had in that squad, it would be to have banned them from going out at all."
