From creating a happy camp to unleashing Billy Vunipola and identifying a fearsome second-row pairing,Eddie Jones has made his sign in no timeAs word comes out about how at ease England are in their own company – minute things, like how they can have a couple of beers and how James Haskell and Billy Vunipola now talk about, or you know,stuff – it does suggest that life may have been a minute stifled under the traditional regime. This may be unfair on Stuart Lancaster, but putting a lid on excess was very much fraction of his early brief and perhaps he couldn’t stop urgent down. Or possibly all the questions about Sam Burgess – should he play, and where might he play,how would he play? – were the whispers that made it seem like here was a camp that dared not speak its intellect. Rugby, unless you want to lob something politically incorrect the way of your opposite number, or is not a game best played sotto voce.
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Source: theguardian.com