Eddie Jones has slammed Mike Brown's claims that not a single Wales player would make it into the England team.
The former England full-back made the comments in a newspaper column as attention turned to Saturday's Twickenham showdown following Wales' tense 20-17 win over Scotland.
In the days which followed that win in Cardiff, Brown said: "One of my memories of playing against Wales is the ‘combined XV’ articles that would always be churned out on the week of the game. They would cherry-pick the best players from both sides. During the Warren Gatland era, it would always be a pretty even split of English and Welsh.
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"Based on what I’ve seen of Wales in the opening two rounds, they don’t have a single player who would get into the England XV right now."
Brown had changed his view by Sunday morning, admitting Alex Cuthbert, Taulupe Faletau and Tomos Williams were making him think again after their Twickenham performances. You can read about that here
But speaking to the media after England's dramatic 23-19 win, Jones was unimpressed with Brown's original comments.
"I don't look at it that way," he told WalesOnline.
"These ex-players, they become so clever when they start talking in the media and they haven't answered everything.
"I think that's quite disrespectful.
"I don't look at teams like that. You have a certain amount of players to pick, and we have a certain amount of players to pick and we try and pick the best players to play for each country.
"So I wouldn't engage in that conversation."
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