England planning to bore Islanders into submission

England's Owen Farrell scores his side's fourth try.

Having defeated South Africa to make it 10 straight wins under his command, the Pacific Islanders are next up at Twickenham.

Traditionally, they can cause any opponent problems with their running rugby but Jones believes he has a way of preventing that. “You go to Fiji and everyone’s throwing 15 metre torpedo passes, everyone sidesteps and everyone flicks the ball through their legs,” said the 56-year-old.

“When they can’t get to do that, though, they get bored and when they get bored they don’t want to play, and when that happens you get points against them.

“We’re going to win the game and I want to win it conclusively.

“To do that, I think we have to bore them to death, which doesn’t mean it’s not good rugby, not at all; it just means we’ve got to be really tactically smart against them.”

If it rains again at the weekend that should aid their plans, too.

But Jones maintained: “It doesn’t matter whatever weather it is.

“My wife says to me ‘you always used to worry about the rain when you coached other teams and now you don’t.’

“But it doesn’t matter with this team; we’re completely adaptable.

“We can play on dry tracks or wet tracks, it doesn’t matter.

“And look at the world player of the year – England have had just two nominations in the last 12 years. Now we’ve got three in one.”

After 11 defeats and a draw in their previous 12 meetings dating back to November, 2006, England captain Dylan Hartley said: “We’re very happy to get that monkey off our back.”

South Africa head coach Allister Coetzee insisted his side’s rotten run can be rectified with hard work.

“There’s things we can fix. Things we need to fix quickly, too,” said Coetzee.

“It’s tough, you’ve got to hang in there. It’s never easy, you’ve got to keep working and focusing on the positive things.”

The Springboks chief was adamant the aura surrounding the two-time world champions remains and that all that is needed is one win – something he hopes will come in Florence against Italy.

Coetzee said: “I always look at when a team gives up, then I’d say the Springboks have lost their aura but there’s no lack of effort.

“We need to get a win. That is one important thing. You can work as hard as you want to, but to believe in structures and the team itself you need to win.”