Six Nations setting higher standards by keeping up with the Joneses | Andy Bull

As England have raised their standards to those of the southern hemisphere teams, so Wales, Ireland, France and Scotland have lifted their games and the tournament has benefited as a resultLate on Saturday night, Eddie Jones was asked whether he was planning to let his team take a break. He had just been talking about how “battered and bruised” they were feeling after another brutal match against Wales, in which Ross Moriarty in particular played with a ferocity that suggested some of the Englishmen must have done something to offend his mother. Order Moriarty to cut down a tree and he wouldn’…