Eddie Jones kills off England’s nanny state mindset and empowers players | Robert Kitson

The England coach has changed old habits and methods and even taken his players to train among the Hyde Park duck poo to ready his team to face ScotlandThe sheer scale of the Six Nations, says Eddie Jones, is just beginning to dawn on him. Even the Jones family pet, he reckons, is aware of it. “I was saying to my wife the other day: how much media coverage there is of the Six Nations … [even] my dog’s eating his food looking at Dylan Hartley. There are advertisements on the television all the time. There’s a real atmosphere around the games. I’m sure when we get to Edinburgh we’re going to fee…

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