As England scramble to distance themselves from the Eddie Jones era as quickly as possible, there is a certain irony to the fact that his replacement owes his coaching career almost entirely to the Australian.
Steve Borthwick – the Leicester Tigers boss appointed by the RFU on Monday to coach England’s men’s side and salvage the wreckage created by the end of Jones’s time at Twickenham with a Rugby World Cup just nine months away – earned his stripes under the 62-year-old.
