Harrison in as Jones sends a message for England’s ‘World Cup final’

However, he has kept the changes down to just one.

Teimana Harrison will play at no7 in place of the injured James Haskell, but that is all. “To play for England you have to be in the best 23 and that’s what this selection represents”. Once it became apparent his established starters still had more to give, Jones decided there was more value in sticking with them.

New Zealand born and educated Teimana Harrison has earned a start in the one change to England’s side to play the Wallabies in the third and final test in Sydney.

“He’s an experienced player, he plays in that role as second playmaker for us, so it was a logical choice”, Cheika said. “You have to work hard to get a jersey and players don’t want to give their jersey away”. “If you don’t have talented players, you don’t have a successful team”.

Jones said there was still improvement left in his side, with his charges desperate to learn from each match.

“We’ve got to be very careful that all the praise we’re getting doesn’t make us weak”.

“When you’ve had a couple of wins praise can make you weak”.

“He became an influential player in the Northampton sides”. I remember having a discussion with Kyran Bracken when I first went to Saracens.

“He played about 3-4 games after Christmas and I’d seen him before Christmas and I must say, I wasn’t impressed”, he said. Jones has been fairly blunt about that decision though he did joke the assistant coaches were handing out “hugs and kisses” as they relayed what areas those on the fringe of the squad need to improve on.

“If we want to be the best team in the world, we’ll be thinking 3-0. He’s a big guy, if he’s not at that fitness he can’t play worldwide footy”.

“It’s a mental challenge, it’s a physical challenge and we’ve done everything this week to get ourselves prepared”.

The exception is Haskell, who has been nursing a cracked foot and a sore shoulder for a while and has finally been forced to listen to his screaming body.

This competitiveness has seen five players on the touring party miss out on any match action. So much for all those tired unsuccessful trudges through the southern hemisphere that have mostly been England’s annual fate. “If you don’t perform you’ve got no hope of getting picked”, Jones said.

“Whatever way we need to win, we’ll win”.

“I said after game one in Brisbane that we had to park the egos”, Hartley said. “Just because we have won the series 2-0, it doesn’t mean they deserve a cap”. All the smart guys in the papers were saying 3-0.

“Strong carries, good tacklers, high work rate, a bit of mongrel about him”. If we need to kick the ball we’ll kick it, if we need to run we’ll run, if we need to pass we’ll pass.

England – Mike Brown; Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, Owen Farrell, Jack Nowell; George Ford, Ben Youngs; Billy Vunipola, Teimana Harrison, Chris Robshaw; George Kruis, Maro Itoje; Dan Cole, Dylan Hartley (capt), Mako Vunipola.