Jones challenges England to improve

Part of that task is killing the idea that matching the great 2003 team’s sequence of 14 wins makes this side the equal of Clive Woodward’s World Cup winners.

“The only record we are interested to beat is to be the number one team in the world and to do that we have to win the World Cup”.

After his fourth victory over Australia, Jones challenged his side to back up their remarkable feat of completing the year unbeaten – they are the first England side to do so since Will Carling’s team of 1992 – by repeating the feat next year. They want this game, it’s a big game for us. “But we can’t get too carried away”.

“Eddie always says he wants us to be the No1 team in the world and so do the players”.

“We’ve got expectation, we want to play well”. And we’re hell-bent on achieving that.

“You probably have to as you get older, you find different ways to have an impact on the game”, he said. “That’s what we’re aiming to do”.

Both coaches have questioned the legality of the other side’s scrum this week, with Jones lighting the fuse immediately after England’s 27-14 win over Argentina at Twickenham last weekend. England have scored 46 tries since early February and beaten Australia four times inside six months, when they are supposedly in the foothills of a rebuilding operation. We don’t have that yet.

Jones said he would meet with referee Jaco Peyper to discuss the Wallabies tactics at the scrum, while Cheika fired back that England loosehead Dan Cole was a serial cheat.

“We knew there were 15 Tests this year against the top eight nations”.

“We recuperated, got our heads on and in a better space and then in the second-half we did the basics really well. To win the second half 24-5 was a pretty fair effort”.

Captain Dylan Hartley said the first half had been frustrating. We overcame that loss of talent.

“They dressed us up as clowns today”.

Eddie Jones’ mastery of media mind games has been a key factor in England’s stunning form in 2016, according to Mike Tindall.

“First half all told, all they got was the drop ball and toe through for the [Jonathan Joseph] try”, Cheika said.

Asked what extra satisfaction he took from the win, Jones said: “Zero, mate”. “It’s just another Test match”.

“Jones has had a lot of fun at Cheika’s expense this year, but he who laughs last, laughs loudest”, the article concluded.

“We’ve got cold beers”.

And Jones refused to be satisfied with his start to life at Twickenham, insisting he won’t be happy until England are the best team in the world – and world champions.

But Jones, speaking after the match, said the Wallabies had been invited into England’s dressing room for a drink he hoped would suit Australian tastes.

“I’m very positive about the team as a whole”, he said. The way the game is going it is quicker and faster and he needed me to operate at a higher level’.

“I also feel that we’ve improved”.

England dominated the second half to the extent that the Wallabies touched enemy territory only twice.

“He’s made some comments about legacy, well we don’t have anything to do with legacy, it’s an uncontrollable part of what happens so we’re not perturbed about that”. “And that cost us”.