Eddie Jones smiles when he is asked if he is anxious as he approaches next month’s encounters with the southern hemisphere’s big three and the team he coached in the last World Cup, Japan, given England’s chronic injury list. The Australian is one of the few head coaches around who enjoys sparring with the media, a relic of the amateur era.
“No. You can only play with the cards you are dealt,” he says. “You can talk about season structure, rugby, club versus country but it does not matter at the end of the day. You can only do what you can and for me that is selecting the side and getting the players organised and in the right attitude to play.
Written by Paul Rees
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/oct/20/eddie-jones-owen-farrell-england-autumn-internationals under the title “Owen Farrell is an England certainty. But where he plays is less clear”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
