In June 2016, England will play a three test series against
Australia as part of the 2016 mid-year rugby union tests. They will play
the Wallabies across the three weeks that the June International window
is allocated to, and will contest the Cook Cup, in which England has
won eight times to Australia’s twelve times. The global rugby calendar
established by the International Rugby Board,
Captain Dylan Hartley insists England can beat Australia
Australia coach Michael Cheika praises ‘phenomenal’ Eddie Jones and England team
Dylan Hartley insists England begin their quest for an historic series victory in Australia armed with the conviction they can topple the World Cup finalists.The Grand Slam champions play Tests in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney against a Wallabies team that has been revived under the guidance of Michael Cheika, a friend and former club team-mate of Red Rose boss Eddie Jones.
Australia v England 2016: Nick Phipps says Australia have found their true identity under Michael Cheika
Yet as Australia coach, Cheika’s public pronouncements have been disappointingly courteous, nice even. Caustic comments have been replaced by compliments, barbs by bouquets. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph ahead of the eagerly anticipated three-Test series against England, Cheika describes Eddie Jones as a “phenomenal coach” who has made England look “ominous” once again. He picks out James Haskell,
Hartley, however, insists England enter the opener at Suncorp Stadium next Saturday unafraid to state their aim of humbling the favourites. Why can’t we win the series? What’s the point in going if we don’t want to win it?” the captain said. We’ve never won so it’s a huge opportunity for us. I don’t think there’s any harm in saying we want to win the series, because what’s the point in touring otherwise.
This isn’t just a make up the numbers game at the end of the season, we want to go down and challenge them. England, missing their Premiership finalists from Saracens and Exeter, warmed up for their June tour with a 27-13 victory over Wales at Twickenham last week in which they outscored their old rivals five-one on the try-count. It was good to be back and good to be continuing our run. The first 20 minutes gave us a bit of a shock,” Hartley said.
It was quite fast paced. You like to control the opening exchanges, but when you’re 10-0 down you have to reassess a few things.
We finished the game on a high note with a set piece focus. The young guys coming off the bench, earning first caps, really closed the game out. They did a good job. Jack Nowell and Maro Itoje for individual praise while he believes Ben Te’o has all the ingredients to be a successful cross codes convert.
The opening Test against England in Brisbane on June 11 will be Australia’s first match since that defeat to New Zealand and Cheika’s sense of anticipation is palpable. “I can’t wait for it,” Cheika said. “It has been a long time since we have played any rugby. It is going to be a battle, but that’s what the game is about: physicality and aggression. That’s what fans want to see. They want to see that battle.”
Yet a huge part of the public’s fascination with the series, lies less with the teams than it does with their coaches. Jones and Cheika’s history goes back 30 years to their days as teammates for the great Randwick team coached by Bob Dwyer. By contrast, Cheika never saw himself as coach material and in some senses he still does not. It was only when David Campese, another Randwick teammate, invited him to help at Padova in 1999 that he was set upon that path.
I saw it as a chance to go and have a holiday,” he says. Even now despite having become the first coach to have won both a European Cup and Super Rugby title, he speaks of coaching as if he is indulging a temporary pleasure. I have never seen it as a career,” Cheika said. “There are people working hard out there, doing proper jobs. This is just a passion that I am privileged to be able to do. I am still trying to work out what job I am going to have to do when I grow up.
The sides’ last meeting, when Australia put England out of their own World Cup, will be irrelevant to the outcome of this series, according to Cheika. “Everything starts at zero again,” Cheika said. “You have got to continually re-earn things. Everything we have done in in the past we have to re-earn and even better. Sorce
Captain Dylan Hartley insists England can beat Australia
Australia coach Michael Cheika praises ‘phenomenal’ Eddie Jones and England team
Dylan Hartley insists England begin their quest for an historic series victory in Australia armed with the conviction they can topple the World Cup finalists.The Grand Slam champions play Tests in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney against a Wallabies team that has been revived under the guidance of Michael Cheika, a friend and former club team-mate of Red Rose boss Eddie Jones.
Australia v England 2016: Nick Phipps says Australia have found their true identity under Michael Cheika
Yet as Australia coach, Cheika’s public pronouncements have been disappointingly courteous, nice even. Caustic comments have been replaced by compliments, barbs by bouquets. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph ahead of the eagerly anticipated three-Test series against England, Cheika describes Eddie Jones as a “phenomenal coach” who has made England look “ominous” once again. He picks out James Haskell,
Hartley, however, insists England enter the opener at Suncorp Stadium next Saturday unafraid to state their aim of humbling the favourites. Why can’t we win the series? What’s the point in going if we don’t want to win it?” the captain said. We’ve never won so it’s a huge opportunity for us. I don’t think there’s any harm in saying we want to win the series, because what’s the point in touring otherwise.
This isn’t just a make up the numbers game at the end of the season, we want to go down and challenge them. England, missing their Premiership finalists from Saracens and Exeter, warmed up for their June tour with a 27-13 victory over Wales at Twickenham last week in which they outscored their old rivals five-one on the try-count. It was good to be back and good to be continuing our run. The first 20 minutes gave us a bit of a shock,” Hartley said.
It was quite fast paced. You like to control the opening exchanges, but when you’re 10-0 down you have to reassess a few things.
We finished the game on a high note with a set piece focus. The young guys coming off the bench, earning first caps, really closed the game out. They did a good job. Jack Nowell and Maro Itoje for individual praise while he believes Ben Te’o has all the ingredients to be a successful cross codes convert.
The opening Test against England in Brisbane on June 11 will be Australia’s first match since that defeat to New Zealand and Cheika’s sense of anticipation is palpable. “I can’t wait for it,” Cheika said. “It has been a long time since we have played any rugby. It is going to be a battle, but that’s what the game is about: physicality and aggression. That’s what fans want to see. They want to see that battle.”
Yet a huge part of the public’s fascination with the series, lies less with the teams than it does with their coaches. Jones and Cheika’s history goes back 30 years to their days as teammates for the great Randwick team coached by Bob Dwyer. By contrast, Cheika never saw himself as coach material and in some senses he still does not. It was only when David Campese, another Randwick teammate, invited him to help at Padova in 1999 that he was set upon that path.
I saw it as a chance to go and have a holiday,” he says. Even now despite having become the first coach to have won both a European Cup and Super Rugby title, he speaks of coaching as if he is indulging a temporary pleasure. I have never seen it as a career,” Cheika said. “There are people working hard out there, doing proper jobs. This is just a passion that I am privileged to be able to do. I am still trying to work out what job I am going to have to do when I grow up.
The sides’ last meeting, when Australia put England out of their own World Cup, will be irrelevant to the outcome of this series, according to Cheika. “Everything starts at zero again,” Cheika said. “You have got to continually re-earn things. Everything we have done in in the past we have to re-earn and even better. Sorce
