With less than two weeks to go before the Six Nations Tournament, coaches and players have ants in their legs, starting with England coach Eddie Jones: "I can't wait to be there" he said on Wednesday.
RTÉ Sport's @damien_omeara caught up with England coach Eddie Jones, who hopes that his Saracens players will regard England duty as a "sanctuary" from the travails of club life. pic.twitter.com/cC53jsrcHK
- RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) January 22, 2020"The humidity, the wind, the cold, the Stade de France, 4:00 pm, a Sunday afternoon ... I can't wait to be there," said Jones at the official launch in London of the Tournament 2020 which will start for his team on February 2 against France. An uncertain post-World Cup edition with four new coaches and a lot of upheavals in the workforce.
Fabien # Galthié sets the bar very high before the next @SixNationsRugby: "A successful tournament? A won tournament!" # FFR #XVdeFRANCE #FRAANG pic.twitter.com/AQ78gZNNxi
- Fabien Fougeray (@Fab_Fougeray) January 22, 2020"It is always special, because we are not sure of the stability of the teams (...) we must wait until the end of the first two days to have a little measure of the competition," said Jones. England, beaten in the World Cup final in Japan by South Africa (32-12), wants to rhyme reconstruction and ambition. "We have kept most of the World Cup group and we have a new technical staff, but we want to start on the right foot," he added.
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