England head coach Eddie Jones says he couldn’t be any prouder of his players as they took another positive step forwards towards the 2019 Six Nations with a dominant victory over Australia.
Jones’ side blitzed past the Wallabies in a 37-18 win to record a record sixth consecutive win over their Southern Hemisphere rivals.
Elliot Daly, Joe Cokanasiga and Owen Farrell all scored tries in a game that saw England score 24 unanswered points during the second half.
The result left the England boss gushing after full-time as his side finished their Quilter international campaign in style.
“We took steps ahead in South Africa while on tour, we had a tough Six Nations, we got some things wrong in terms of planning and we needed to regroup and in South Africa we did that,” he said after the game.
“We didn’t get the results we would have liked in terms of winning the series but we moved on in the togetherness of the team and how we want to play rugby.
This November has been another step forward and we expect to make another step forward in the Six Nations.”
“Our performance today was based on the traditions of English rugby: strong scrum, lineout maul, good defence and then we created opportunities to attack and the scrum was at the forefront of that.
“In that first half we had opportunities to get a bit further ahead than we were.
“We missed those and allowed them back in the game and they got a bit of confidence but in the second half we were able to regroup, play a real English second half and I was really pleased with that.
“We have great competition for places, especially when you consider the players we are missing,” he said. “It’ll get every player in the squad to push harder.
“I’m coaching England and I love the English players and it’s about us getting better as a team. All we want to do is play good rugby.”
Australia head coach Michael Cheika said his side needed to attack more in the second half and kicked too much throughout the game.
“We needed to be better, needed attack more in the second half. We kicked too much ball away and when we attacked and tried to be creative, we looked really good”, he said.
“We kicked far too much all the way.”
