England simply cannot fairly escape the shadow of their outdated mentor Eddie Jones.
Simply when Twickenham bosses thought they may get on with Saturday’s Six Nations Championship with none enter from their former coach who’s now again in his green-and-gold ingredient with the Wallabies, Jones has popped as much as supply his prediction for his outdated crew’s first sport with out him.
The excellent news for England followers? Jones, not sitting on the fence as regular in his new podcast titled EDDIE, reckons they’re going to win their Calcutta Cup conflict towards Scotland on Saturday by three factors, courtesy of a penalty from his former captain Owen Farrell.
So Jones, whose final outing at Twickenham earlier than he obtained sacked by RFU chiefs in December led to boos from followers sad in regards to the turgid defeat by South Africa, fancies his successor Steve Borthwick will find yourself celebrating his first match in cost.
That will probably be greater than Jones himself managed two years in the past on the similar venue when the Scots received for the primary time at HQ for 38 years.
But it surely appears Jones nonetheless remembers being burned by the excellence of Finn Russell that day as he predicts the consequence will hinge on how the mercurial Scottish five-eighth performs.
“He (Russell) offers Scotland an impressive likelihood to win,” Jones mentioned.
“It additionally signifies that if England get on prime, Scotland will in all probability get hammered as a result of he’ll maintain taking dangers below strain and can give England extra alternatives to attain.”
Of the sport’s teaching battle between his former assistant Borthwick and Scotland’s Gregor Townsend, Jones added: “They’re two superb coaches – Steve is methodical, Gregor extra desires to do various things, desires to play the sport otherwise.”
