“You have got to remember,” Eddie Jones told assembled media after his 22nd victory in 23 games with England, “everything we do is geared towards the first game of the World Cup.”Indeed. At no point has this been clearer than in the past three weeks. I have made this point before and Jones’s England have proved it again. There has never been a four-year cycle in England rugby quite like this, quite so single-mindedly focused on one outcome, which is the World Cup final at the end of it. At Twickenham, we have been watching as Jones has been…

Source: The Times November 27, 2017 00:03 UTC