• ‘Owen’s got quite a big job for us,’ says Jones
Eddie Jones has urged England to channel the samurai spirit for their World Cup quarter-final against Australia on Saturday after springing a huge surprise by dropping George Ford and restoring the out-of-sorts Owen Farrell to fly-half.
Jones said Farrell’s form has suffered at the World Cup because of the England captaincy but backed his leader to rediscover his best form against the Wallabies. He revealed he has had to pull Farrell to one side to discuss how focusing too much on the captaincy has affected his performance but in the biggest selection call of his England tenure, Ford has been relegated to the bench.
Written by Gerard Meagher in Oita
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/oct/17/eddie-jones-samurai-spirit-england-quarter-final-australia-rugby-world-cup under the title “‘Do or die’: Eddie Jones channels his samurai spirit for England quarter-final”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
