There will be new faces when England’s training squad meets, among them some eye-catching coaching appointments
There will be a sense of new beginnings at the first England training camp of the season next week and not just among the playing personnel. Eddie Jones has three new members of staff for the first get-together of the season and though the defence coach Anthony Seibold will not be there in person, suffice it to say that first impressions will be everything for the incoming trio.
As well as Seibold, Jones has appointed Richard Cockerill as (another) forwards coach and Martin Gleeson to oversee the attack. When the appointments of Seibold and Cockerill were announced earlier this month Jones concluded that he had the coaching team in place to set about achieving England’s stated goal of winning the World Cup in two years’ time. Given Jones has not gone two years in his tenure without changes to his coaching staff, we should reserve judgment on whether this is, indeed, the finalised team for France 2023.