The
England head coach said everyone is ‘disappointed’ about the cancellation of their upcoming match against
France in the Rugby
World Cup, but added that he believed the ‘typhoon gods’ were looking down on the team. He said: ‘We’ve had two relatively easy games, one tough game and then two weeks to prepare for a quarter-final. So someone is smiling on us – the typhoon gods, maybe?’
Jones relocated his squad away from the eye of the storm back to their pre-tournament training base in the southern coastal backwater of Miyazaki. Both England v France and
New Zealand v
Italy have been cancelled as super Typhoon Hagibis is set to make landfall in
Japan