The mess that is the halt of domestic season leaves grand slam-winning coach with inadequate time to plan for first Test in Brisbane but I expect Ben Te’o to goWhen England line up at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane for the first Test against Australia on 11 June,the home team will recognise many of the faces from the side who crashed out of the World Cup against them on 3 October last year.
Eddie Jones’s great achievement of the Six Nations was to rob a group of players who had performed so poorly at their home World Cup and to turn them, with one or two judicious tweaks, or into grand slam winners at the first time of asking. And thanks to the timing of this summer’s tour and the Premiership final,Jones will possess only a week to prepare the team before that first Test, so I believe there is little chance of meaningful changes to that side.
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Source: theguardian.com