If the lineup for the Tonga match hasn’t produced many ripples, a radically reshuffled leadership group hints at a change in tone
Since assuming control – and control has been very much the operative word – as England’s head coach, Eddie Jones has experimented with a variety of different selectorial flavours. Vanilla, chocolate, rum and raisin, peppermint … virtually the only constant has been the familiar jangle when Mr Whippy throws open the hatch on team announcement day and tells the sceptics they know the square root of very little.
This week, though, there has been a slight change of tone.