A visiting side full of burly, bruising bullies showed they have the game to beat the best with their win in Ireland
So this is England. Three years in, this felt like the first good look at the side Eddie Jones has been dreaming about, the one he had always imagined he would pick when everybody was fit, the one he’s been whipping and hounding his players in training for, the one that, he believes, can win the World Cup for him later this year. They are an ugly bunch, nasty, brutish and sharp, a pack of burly bullies with a couple of whippet‑quick sidekicks making mischief around the fringes. They have the strength to beat you one way, the speed to beat you the other, and they will be hell for everyone except their own fans.
The air was still thick with the last lingering firework smoke when England scored their first, a champagne cork start from a team who have spent the last week brewing up under heavy pressure in their camp in Portugal, thinking about nothing other than proving themselves here in Dublin. It started with a move they must have come up with in training there. Manu Tuilagi was ambling around the midfield when all of a sudden he snapped into life and charged on to the end of the long lineout throw from Jamie George. It was a cunning little ruse and Ireland were caught short.
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