Awful That was England head coach Andy Robinson's own assessment of his side after the humiliating 31-6 defeat against France in Paris on Sunday. Rubbish. That's how captain Martin Corry saw it.
On a weekend of fantastic sporting achievement, with Wayne Rooney and Thierry Henry both scoring twice, Andrew Flintoff doing his damnedest to stop India with bat and ball, South Africa breaking world records to beat Australia and Luke Donald winning in the United States, how bloody awful it looked too.
The defeat in Paris equalled the 1972 demolition, it ended any lingering hopes of a Six Nations championship and leaves Robbo teetering on the brink of a serious vote of no confidence from the RFU with the World Cup - in France - looming next year.
On Saturday, Ireland come to Twickenham hoping Wales, who were pretty awful in their 18-18 draw with Italy on Saturday, can upset the French in Cardiff to pinch the championship.
It won't happen. As I predicted in January, France will take the Six Nations. As I completely failed to predict, England will be fighting to avoid a third successive season of crushing disappointment in the northern Hemisphere's great rugby fest.
Oh, the pain.
With reports emerging of food poisoning after a seafood meal near the Champs Elysees on Thursday night, England have a great excuse, on a par with New Zealand's tummy problems before the 1995 World Cup final loss against South Africa.
Sadly, England's players have been looking dodgy for some weeks now. One bad meal can't take the blame for another awful Six Nations. After the rousing opening win over Wales - which in retrospect was little more than a cakewalk against a side falling apart at all levels - victory over Italy was followed by failure against Scotland and this awful rubbish in Paris.
The Irish game can only end in tears. Robbo knows defeat against the side that eased past Scotland 15-9 in Dublin on Saturday will lead to serious questions.
Rob Andrew, the former England fly-half now coach at Newcastle, is already asking them.
He says: "Defensively England don't look organised and the backs don't look incisive. What sort of work is being done in terms of preparation and training?The team has no style or substance, no shape or dynamism."
Too true. It seems incredible to think that, less than three years ago, we were heading for a World Cup triumph on the back of a Grand Slam.
Preparation then, under Sir Clive Woodward, was exhaustive and detailed. Robbo himself was part of the machinery, he looked confident, he had his role, he was perfectly placed to take over when Sir Clive left for football and Southampton, where things are little better.
Now Andrew says: "The bottom line is, as the Six Nations has progressed, England have got worse."
And he concludes: "Ireland aren't firing on all cylinders but they are more than capable of beating England on Saturday. They have the players to deliver it."
Worryingly, France weren't exactly firing on all cylinders on Sunday either. Sure, the scored three tries, but when they weren't running for the line they were dropping the ball, knocking it on and generally playing in a very unGallic fashion.
And that's the thing. Ireland or France will lift the Six Nations trophy on Saturday night having done very little to impress rugby fans watching in the Southern Hemisphere. The thought of England touring Down Under is enough to make even the hardiest of Barmy Army fans wince.
Solutions? Jonny Wilkinson springs to mind. But after injuries to neck, bicep, hamstring, appendix, groin and adductor, what chance has he got of making a first appearance since THAT night in Sydney 28 months ago.
Bring Martin Johnson out of retirement? But surely Danny Grewcock and Steve Borthwick, our current locks, aren't the problem. And whatever happened to World Cup winning second-rower Ben Kay?
The front row of Andrew Sheridean, Steve Thompson and Julian White is hard to improve on with Phil Vickery suffering a third serious back problem, and I guess we just have to accept Moody, Corry, Worsely will never be quite as frightening as Hill, Dallaglio, Back in the loose.
But it's in the backs that England appear to have lost it. Mike Tindall keeps his place next to an unconvincing Jamie Noon with the world's best player, Josh Lewsey, being shunted around the division looking for a hole.
Without the retired Jason Robinson, England lack anybody to set Josh loose, to create excitement elsewhere in the line.
Poor old Mark Cueto and Ben Kay out wide just don't see the ball in an attacking sense.
And the Matt Dawson/Harry Ellis experience/youth debate goes on and on at scrum-half.
There are no easy solutions. I have little doubt England have chosen their best 15 on regular occasions throughout this Six Nations. They just don't have the confidence to play, to let loose. And they don't have the fire in their belly old Jonno could spark.
So here we have a side capable, to my mind, of taking on the best in the world. But without spark, without inspiration, without fire, they can barely emerge from the bottom half of the Six Nations.
It's time for change.
Andrew suggests: "England have to make changes this week, Paris was a vote of confidence in the players following the defeat in Edinburgh but that has produced a bigger defeat against France."
But he admits: "Robinson has played his cards and he doesn't seem to have any left."
So maybe Robbo was only ever meant to be a bloody efficent, nice-guy Number Two. Like Brian Kidd at Manchester United, Pat Rice at Arsenal, you know the sort of geezer.
Yup, with the French World Cup barely a year away, it's time for change. And it has to happen at the top.
My verdicts this weekend:
England 24, Ireland 30
Wales 10, France 43
Italy 22, Scotland 28
