Ready, Eddie, go: Mind games begin ahead of Rugby World Cup final

England head coach Eddie Jones before his team's Rugby World Cup semifinal against New Zealand at International Stadium Yokohama, in Yokohama, Japan, on October 26 2019.

Image: REUTERS/Edgar Su England head coach Eddie Jones before his team's Rugby World Cup semifinal against New Zealand at International Stadium Yokohama, in Yokohama, Japan, on October 26 2019.

You’d be forgiven for thinking England would be prone to suffering analysis paralysis ahead of Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final against SA.

It is such a generously proportioned coaching squad that information overload has to be guarded against – but the wily Eddie Jones has seen the warning signs.

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