Eddie Jones pushes England fitness to the limit in quest for supremacy

Head coach is convinced having the fittest, strongest players will make England Six Nations winnersWhen Conor O’Shea walked up the driveway of the hotel for a dinner on the eve of the Six Nations’ launch last month, a fox ran out in front of him. The immediate thought of the Italy head coach, which sums up the suspicion that swirls in an era when stories of spying and surveillance are commonplace, was that the animal had been released by Eddie Jones as a joke to mark the tactical ploy pulled by the Azzurri at Twickenham last year.Italy threw England out of their stride by not contesting after …