On Saturday afternoon, the rugby world will have its first answers to a question that is leaving most of it puzzled – and slightly worried.
Six months after reappointing Eddie Jones – and 18 years on from when he left the job in tears – Australia will finally take to the field in their new head coach’s second coming.
It has not been a quiet time for Jones. He was sacked by England last December; quickly re-joined Australia while still being paid off by the RFU; picked rows with rugby league bosses in the NRL; went through his well-thumbed playbook talking about his “smash and grab” plan for the World Cup; discussed playing wings as flankers, and flankers as wings; brought a cattle prod to
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