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Jones seeking players who can control the 'uncontrollables'

(Note language some may find offensive in paragraph 14)

By Mitch Phillips

LONDON : With less than a year to go until the Rugby World Cup, England coach Eddie Jones is trying to formulate a group of players who can think for themselves in what he expects to be a maelstrom of on-pitch distractions during the tournament in France.

Jones named his latest training squad on Monday ahead of November Twickenham games against Argentina and Japan - who they will face in the Pool stage in France next year, New Zealand, their potential semi-final opponents, and South Africa.

Discussing his selections the Australian said that the current state of rugby, with multiple yellow cards, injuries and TMO interventions now becoming the norm, is delivering new challenges and is something he is factoring in to his player choices and coaching sessions.

"We need to be able to adapt to a different game - probably 25 per cent of the game now is uncontrollable, through sin-bins, HIAs (head injury assessments) and uneven numbers in the game," he said.

"The match then becomes completely different. We need to be able to adapt from our game to the game that’s going to be played in that time. That’s hard to do and I can’t name one team who can do it at the moment.

"We basically can’t get messages on the field any more so the players have become even more important in terms of decision making.

"We want to create a game that play to our strengths but if the game changes and we need to play a different. If something goes wrong the 15 players on the field all have different ideas of how to fix it. We need to get a leader - or a group of leaders - who can influence those players to immediately go into a slightly nuanced variation of the game we normally play."

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