Wallabies share beer with England after fourth straight defeat
Jones was singing from the same sheet after England notched their 13th consecutive victory of his coaching era in beating Australia 37-21 at Twickenham on Sunday.
Jones deserves a huge amount of credit for what he’s achieved in 2016 as England completed a first Grandslam in 13 years, as well as a 4-0 rout of Australia over the summer and winter.
Eddie Jones has insisted that his England players still have a long way to go before they can truly consider themselves as challengers for the next Rugby World Cup.
Saturday’s win was all the more impressive as England were 10-0 down early on against a fired-up Australia side.
Australia, who were denied three early tries by the TMO, took the lead through Sefanaia Naivalu’s touchdown and stayed in the game via Sekope Kepu’s 65th-minute try.
But England’s pack gradually got into gear and the home side, with Owen Farrell landing all six of his goal kicks, fought back.
Marland Yarde touches the ball down to score a try for England against Australia, yesterday.
Michael Cheika said his side had a good first half this week and a good second half last week against Ireland.
“I still believe it’s the right decision and you have to take the pain when it comes”. “We have the talent, it’s whether we get the desire and cohesion right”.
Man-of-the-match Youngs increased England’s lead with a fine solo try, the Leicester scrum-half taking a quick tap-penalty, selling Phipps an extravagant dummy before scampering over.
It should have come as no surprise but Eddie Jones was not resting on his laurels after watching his England team beat Australia 37-21 on Saturday to complete a ideal year of 13 victories since he took charge.
Michael Cheika’s side had already been defeated though, and Jones’s history boys were having a party.
“We knew there was 15 Tests this year against the top-eight nations and we’ve had a massive turnover in our squad”, he added.
“We recuperated, got our heads in a better space”, England coach Eddie Jones said. All the players realize that.
“We’ve seen so many good young Wallabies come out of that system and I think there’s going to be plenty more because there’s so many talented boys there. This guy’s hopeless. I don’t know why they play him all the time'”, Jones said.
“We’re only the No. 2 team in the world”, Jones said.
“He hasn’t been at his best this autumn – it’s quite clear he’s still recovering from his back injury, I’d say he’s probably been at 80 per cent of his total fitness”.
Cheika said Jones risked tarnishing his legacy in Australia and had a chip on his shoulder.
Seemingly doesn’t matter how they start, when this side are put up against it, they seem to consistently burst at the seams with the game on the line.
But after taking Australia to last year’s World Cup final, there is no suggestion that Cheika is in imminent danger of suffering a similar fate.
“Two disappointing finishes to ’15 and ’16, but we definitely improved a lot, got a lot of young lads with test experience”, he said.
“The moments we had to try to break that momentum, we made errors”. “I’m very positive about the team”. We had a lot of opportunities. “I expect the third time it happens we won’t”.