After England’s third straight Six Nations loss Eddie Jones has warned his squad that some may not be playing when the 2019 World Cup rolls around.
“Some may struggle to participate in the future,” Jones said.
“There are some guys who are starting their international careers and they need time. I have to decide whether I have time to get them ready for the World Cup.
“We weren’t happy being the team we were because we knew whatever we had won, we weren’t good enough to get to where we wanted to get.
"We knew we had to change and sometimes that hurts. It’s not nice but it is part of the process of being a better team.
Despite the disappointing fifth-place finish, Jones is making sure he draws all of the positives he can from the tournament.
“You never find out about yourself unless you have these runs. When you take over it is quite easy to improve because you can fix things quickly. But internal mechanisms take time to fix. Unless you fix them they catch up with you when you get to the big tournaments, such as the World Cup. So for us it has been an enormously beneficial tournament, if disappointing.”
England won't play again until late May, when they take on the Barbarians.
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Ackermann returned. It would've been great to see him at the Stormers.
Go to commentsDisastrous result for conaught almost an impossible task to make top 8 now
The fixture may have been overly friendly recently, and connaught appeared to be a bit unstuck by the venom and vitriol from Ulster. Doak had an amzing game shooting out with perfect timing to disrupt onnaught on every attacking phase. On paper connaught should have had this. Well done to Ulster. connaught were suckered a bit.
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