Eddie Jones meets Sky Sports Stuart Barnes and discusses England hopes

Ahead of the Six Nations, new England coach Eddie Jones talks to Stuart Barnes about ambition, empowering youth and what constitutes success.

From being appointed in November, to watching games all over the country, Jones has thrown himself into his new role, with his first squad named and preparations for the Six Nations about to begin he spoke to Sky Sports' expert Barnes who posed the questions......

Why the England job?

"England are one of the countries capable of winning the World Cup.

"The results haven't been great over the last period but if you look at the team that played in the last World Cup, there is definitely talent there. It's a fantastic opportunity to put together a good team that can potentially win the World Cup."

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"I've got a reasonable idea of how I want the team to progress. Whenever you take over any team you've got to get the building blocks in place.

"You work out then what your pluses are; what's going to make you that bit better than everyone else.

"Our building blocks is to get the set-piece right, which hasn't been right; to get our defence dominant and then our plus is always going to be our attack. Attack takes time.

"I'm not expecting us to be able to attack with accuracy and fluency from everywhere this year but I expect to see some progress. The other part is selection and I think the squad we picked probably emphasises that.

"We've picked players who we think are the best in their position now and we've picked players for the future that are hopefully going to be better than these players.

"If they are good enough you pick them. When you get a national team together, some players grow and some players shrink. The players that grow are the players that get selected. The young guys that have come into camp, they've got enthusiasm, they've got energy and I want them to show that.

"If they're better than the guy ahead of them then they are going to get picked."

Changes in time for Scotland?

"Seven sessions is probably going to be a bit tight but we've got to start with changing the mind-set of the players; start getting the players to understand how to win big games of rugby."

George Ford v Owen Farrell?

"We're lucky. What other country in the world has two fantastic stand-offs and they're young and still can grow? Ford is more instinctive, Farrell, is structured but tough. What a great combination."

Where does improvement come from?

"I can see each player has at least three to five per cent improvement to make - some physically, some skill wise, some mentally.

"It will be up to the coaching staff to find out what that is very quickly and give the players the plan to do it. We only have them for 16 weeks a year, the other 36 weeks they are by themselves and they have got to do it."

What would represent success?

"You want to win the World Cup but what I'd like to see is England becoming the most dominant team in the world.

"Imagine an England team that's so strong up front and then can move the ball like the 2003 side did. No one could play against that sort of team.

"That's the sort of team we've got to look to create and that's the dream."

Do England need to simplify?

"I think the players need to make more decisions. The players need to look where they are, look at what the opposition are doing and then make decisions on the best options.

"When you get your ball in your 22, if they've got four people back, then there's space to run. I want England to run. I don't want them to kick because there's no space to kick to.

"We want to run, bring the ball into space, bring their backfield up and then we kick-chase hard and get the ball back to attack."

Instinct and intellect the key difference between hemispheres? 

"South Africa have won their World Cups through physicality, New Zealand have won through a combination of being skilful and being athletic and Australia, as always, find a way to win World Cups.

"They don't have a talent pool but they play clever rugby.

"If we in England can use our dominant set piece and then become a much smarter team in terms of how we use the ball, then we'll be up there challenging."

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