• Head coach to work on team’s discipline
  • Jones says England are going through a transition

Eddie Jones has ruled out sweeping personnel changes to England’s starting XV for Saturday’s game against title-chasing France at Twickenham but has promised his underperforming side will clean up their act after conceding a total of 41 penalties in their last three games.

Defeats by Scotland and Wales have left England in the bottom half of the Six Nations table with two games left but, while warning that 30% of his current squad may struggle to make the 2023 World Cup, Jones still insists he will not be experimenting unduly for the remaining fixtures against Les Bleus and Ireland.

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