Eddie Jones echoes Steve Hansen in saying England ‘not best team yet’

It was also their 14th successive victory, equalling the mark set by Clive Woodward’s World Cup winning team in 2002-03. To do that you’ve got to win the World Cup.

It is 1020 days [until World Cup starts].

“If we win this Test then we create history, so we’re aiming to create history”, added Jones.

“The 2003 side were a much better side than we are at the moment”, The Telegraph quotes him as saying. “We’re only the No. 2 team in the world”, Jones said.

“We got a few penalties but we needed another try to go further ahead”. And we’re hellbent on achieving that. “We’ve got 14 wins now but there’s nothing at the end of that”.

If I said the name Reece Hodge to you, you would know that I am talking about a player who has literally exploded onto the worldwide stage for the Wallabies.

“The 2003 side is a much better side than we are”, Jones said. It’s to ensure he has an understanding of how we play, we have an understanding of what he wants and it’s to ensure the game flows in the proper way.”To be the best team in the world, you’ve got to be like Muhammad Ali.you’ve got to have that relentless desire and pursuit of excellence”. We don’t have that yet. There’s some new skill development that we’ve been doing with Mick [Byrne] coming in and the way we’ve been working as coaches has changed a lot in that regard and we’re seeing the benefit of those changes. We got to half-time 16-13 (behind), recuperated, and got our heads on a bit better.

That was the icing on England’s 13th win in 13 tests for its first unbeaten year in 24 years, and only the second by a major team in the professional era. We could play nine, 10 -man rugby, 15-man rugby or a mixture in the same match.

“That’s a hell of a lot of talent to be missing”. We came up with solutions pretty quickly’.

In Australia’s last game of the season, expect them to give absolutely everything against their epic rivals.

Given England coach Eddie Jones already considered Australia’s media “disrespectful” during last June’s Test series, he would probably not have enjoyed his depiction as a “malevolent clown” in a national newspaper on Saturday.

“We are trying to play a certain style and I know we’ll be criticised for losing but you have to wear that sometimes”, Cheika said.

A win for Australia would see them supplant the Grand Slam champions in second place in the global rankings. “It’s just another Test match”.

“To beat the third-ranked country in the world 4-0 is fantastic”, he said.

Cheika has often labelled a year in which Australia fielded 13 debutants as “transitional” and he was in confident mood despite Saturday’s loss. It might be warm beers, cold pies. That’s why I’d say he’s done it.

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.

“We’ve had two disappointing finishes to ’15 and ’16, but we’ve definitely improved as a team”.

“I think the evidence was on the field”.

In an ominous sign for Cheika’s side England scored following an Australia error when Nick Phipps’ errant pass to Sekope Kepu fell behind the prop and his desperate attempt to knock the ball back to a gold jersey only fell into the path of Farrell.

Cheika rued his side not making more of their early supremacy.