Eddie Jones unholsters young guns with England

Canada lost to England and Wales this month by the same margin, 56 points, but their head coach Kingsley Jones pointed out one notable difference between their two opponents.
“The ball-in-play time was far higher in Cardiff than it was at Twickenham,” he said. “We struggled to cope with England’s physicality in the set-pieces and in the mauls. They split our second rows and we were unable to deal with them as we would have liked.”
England’s head coach Eddie Jones awarded 16 new caps this month, looking for at least four players to retain their places for the November international series, b...

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