The Breakdown | James Haskell: 'There are players all around with demons in their heads'

Flanker reflects on the value of psychology, rugby’s need to extend its horizons and how Eddie Jones transformed EnglandWhat a Flanker, the title of James Haskell’s autobiography, sums up a player who could not have taken the game or his career more seriously, but is still prepared to poke fun at himself. If he learned early on the value of publicity in generating a profile and spent years honing it, he is someone who has considerable depth: what you see is not what you get.Haskell’s book is published in a week when two other club stalwarts, Chris Robshaw and Brad Barritt, are playing their fi…