Eddie Jones has turned to the US Navy Seals who took down Osama Bin Laden for tips on making his England team more streetwise.
A year out from the World Cup, Jones flew to San Diego on a fact-finding mission aimed at better preparing England to challenge for rugby’s biggest prize. Over two days he says he developed an understanding of how better to prepare his players to cope with the unexpected in the heat of sporting battle.
“You know the Osama thing,” he said. “They practised that whole project for 12 months for 38 minutes of work - and the first thing they did was wrong. The helicopter hit the wall [of the compound].
