The real measurement of where England are will be after next week and the week after, because they’ve got a couple of big ones coming.”

The Red Rose were beaten by an impressive Argentina side, it will hope to return to form against Japan this weekend ahead of difficult fixtures against South Africa and New Zealand. Just a year out from the World Cup, Jones will be hopeful that the weekend's performance which was blighted a high penalty count can serve as a lesson ahead of the rest of the Autumn Nations Series. mins:Billy Vunipola's on for England, and smashes fellow replacement Craig Millar, dislodging the ball from the Japan prop's grasp and winning a scrum for the hosts. Jones, naturally, relishes his shot at defying the odds. “England have only won 22 per cent of Tests against New Zealand,” he said, with a knowing grin. In fact, their success rate is even worse than this, at 19 per cent. With replacements swarming on in the second half, England’s supremacy emboldened them to try a few flourishes. Van Poortvliet sent Genge thundering through ragged Japanese resistance, taking three helpless bodies with him. Porter, likewise, was coming into his own. Leicester’s outside centre timed his run to perfection in chasing down Farrell’s clever ball behind the Japanese lines. A powerful sense of relief swept through England. So much so that they briefly let concentration lapse, creating a gap for Warner Dearns to surge through and hand off to Naoto Saito.

What time is England vs. Japan?

Where does that come from, ‘letting go’, asks Sonja McLaughlan? “Probably not worrying as much, probably not thinking too much. When you come together for the first time … you probably overthink things, and when it doesn’t go your way in the game, you probably overthink things even more. It will complete an unexpected return for the 32-year-old after he was told he would miss entire Autumn Nations Series due to breaking two metatarsals on club duty for Saracens against Leicester on October 1. Replacements: Atsushi Sakate, Craig Millar, Asaeli Ai Valu, Warner Dearns, Kanji Shimokawa, Naoto Saito, Dylan Riley, Lomano Lemeki

You should see him in training - nothing has changed because he isn't involved at the weekend, he has been driving things as he normally would." Owen Farrell and George Ford, seen here playing for England under-18s in 2009, are childhood friendsJapan: Masirewa; Matsushima, Osada, Nakamura, Naikabula; Matsuda, Nagare; Inagaki, Horie, Gu, Cornelsen, Fakatava, Leitch, Labuschagne, Himeno (capt) We wanted to play up the middle of the field. They want to play out there [on the wings] … we wanted to really take it to them and I thought we did that pretty well. The set piece was better today. Still not where we need to be, but better.”

mins:PENALTY - England 17-6 Japan. Yamasawa steps up following that penalty, and slots over three more points to help Japan slowly plug this gap.

England vs. Japan lineups

The way the game is at the moment, you need to have three line-out jumpers. [Moving Curry to six] might come into vogue [like in 2019], but at the moment we need three line-out jumpers."