Relaxed Eddie and the Jones gang hit Kobe

In the kaleidoscopic mind of Eddie Jones, the USA’s rugby players have spent a few baking days in the old battle grounds of Okinawa taking Full Metal Jacket orders from the American marines in order to prepare them for meeting England. Jones doesn’t know this for sure. But he likes to imagine it.

“Well I’m guessing they might be mate,” he laughs on a busy Tuesday evening on the Kobe waterfront, where the England rugby team are relaxing. Eddie had given the players some free time to recover from their 35-3 exertion against Tonga on Sunday.