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'Grand Slam is on' - Jones

Tuesday, March 15 2016 by SNTV
  • Reaction from Eddie Jones after England beat Wales 25-21 in the Six Nations on Saturday (12 March).

    SOUNDBITE (English) Eddie Jones, England head coach (on the Grand Slam)

    "The Grand Slam is on isn't it? All we have got to do now is prepare well. We know that France will be passionate and full of pride playing their last game of the Six Nations there. Depending on what the result is tomorrow, all we have to do is prepare well. We prepare well - we play well. We play well - we will win the game."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Eddie Jones, England head coach (on how the team has progressed)

    "So if you would have said - what is it? Five months after (the World Cup) that we would have been ahead 25-6 after 60 minutes against Wales then you would be pretty happy. Now, we have won the game 25-21 and we have won the game. So we have moved on as a team. We are a new team today we weren't the old team we moved on. We played differently. Thought differently. But played a bit like the old team in the last 20 minutes."

    SOUNDBITE (English) Eddie Jones, England head coach (on Wales' comeback in the match)

    "What went wrong in the last 20 minutes is that we missed a couple of tackles. We are always working on our defence. We are always working to get better as a team. So we don't need to focus on the first 60 and we don't need to focus on the last 20 - we just need to focus on getting better as a team. What we tended to do - tactically in the last 20 was sit back instead of keeping attacking them - we stopped attacking them. When we attacked them they really struggled to be with us. But when we sat back and kicked balls back to them and gave them a little bit of ball then they struggled so it is a really good lesson. There's nothing massively there where we have to change tactically we just have to have more awareness about what we have got to do."

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