England threaten southern hemisphere rugby hegemony

Australia coach Eddie Jones today admitted rugby’s traditional southern hemisphere giants could learn a lot from England.

England’s victory over Ireland in Dublin on Sunday buried the hoodoo of three last-gasp Grand Slam failures and extended their winning run to a record-equalling 11 Test matches.

It is a sequence which includes autumn wins over Jones’ Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and landed England their first championship clean sweep since 1995.