Brian Moore believes coach Brian Ashton will part company with England after a mixed Six Nations campaign.

Ashton, who was appointed in December 2006, will meet Rugby Football Union elite rugby director Rob Andrew on Tuesday to discuss his future.

And former England hooker Moore told BBC Radio Five Live: "There has been a lot of hysteria about this and I suspect he's going to go.

"From what I hear a deal has already been done and the decision made."

Andrew will meet the Rugby Football Union (RFU) management board next week to submit his own review of England's efforts in the Six Nations.

It is expected that it will be at that meeting on March 26 that a decision on Ashton's future will be made.

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