Eddie Jones has hit the reset button at the start of England’s new four-year cycle. His starting lineup hasn’t changed a great deal but what better way to demonstrate that the page has been turned than declare “we want to be remembered as the greatest team that ever played rugby”?
Eddie says a lot of things, sometimes to make us buy into a narrative, sometimes to deflect, but I want to take this incredibly bold mission statement at face value and hold him and the Rugby Football Union to account to it. I’m not sure we’ll quite see tens of thousands of Twickenham supporters wearing Make England Great Again T-shirts but it’s a simple message and a metric against which Jones can be measured. It’s also a huge challenge for the RFU but at the same time a massive opportunity.
Written by Ugo Monye
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/01/england-must-marry-greatness-on-off-pitch-meet-eddie-jones-ambitions-six-nations-rugby-union under the title “England must marry greatness on and off the pitch to meet Jones’s ambitions | Ugo Monye”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
