It was after defeat to Ireland 12 months ago that Eddie Jones began to draw his line in the sand. England had been comprehensively outclassed by Andy Farrell’s side, condemning them to a fifth-placed Six Nations finish. The official RFU review was still weeks away but such was the manner of England’s defeat that, over breakfast at a Dublin hotel the next morning, Jones warned that changes were to come.
“I think we all got a pretty strong inkling first thing in the morning when he told us that [there would be a reset] in a meeting,” Charlie Ewels, who starts again in the second row, revealed this week. “He literally said: ‘That’s not good enough - you have got to make a decision.’
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