IN CASE YOU WERE ASLEEP

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■ Eddie tricks doesn’t up his sleeve have any and more he knows it else but to he know doesn’t it. want everyone ■ So the he’ll jeers power that rang on, ignoring out across Twickenham Ireland. a er they lost to ■ He’ll is part continue of his plan to say and all that this all great teams encounter adversity somewhere on the path to glory. ■ All true, but how do England bounce back? ■ They are going to surely have to drop Hartley as captain and from the starting team. ■ They need to pick Farrell at No 10 and keep him there. ■ They will no doubt inject Brad Shields into their starting team once he arrives. ■ And they need to find a genuine openside who is quick and capable of leading their work at the breakdown. ■ Not much for Eddie to do then. ■ Oh yeah and he needs to radically change his entire coaching philosophy because it is fairly obvious he is winding the players up too tight. ■ Centre Jonathan Joseph revealed that Jones texts players during club games to let them know he is watching. ■ Joseph said he finished one club game to realise that at half time Jones had texted him to say he had missed a crucial tackle. ■ Not only is that a little too intense, it’s actually just a bit creepy. ■ Dude, lighten up. People will think you are plain weird doing that sort of stu . ■ Even Graham Henry managed to get over his school headmaster gene and ease up on the All Blacks a er a while. ■ There’s a fine line between driven and actually being a bona fide obsessive with not enough going on in the rest of your life. ■ So Eddie…kick back man, get Netflix, discover the joys of knitting, or lawn bowling, or anything that enables you to be less creepy.