Saturday June 11th sees the Australia v England Rugby Union clash from Down Under. After successfully winning the RBS Six Nations at the first attempt, new England head coach Eddie Jones leads the men in white to his home nation. England won the 2003 Rugby World Cup final against Australia, who was then coached by Jones so this will be a pretty interesting visit for the Australian back on home soil as head of one of their biggest rivals.
He has already said that England are probably going to have a difficult time on and off the pitch in Australia, spouting a bit of a conspiracy theory after he was “shunted” into the baggage check area in Brisbane customs. Jones really didn’t have a lot of time to really stamp his authority over the England set up ahead of the Six Nations, but you could see the difference that he made with the changes he brought in.
He trusted the old guard when he had to, but wasn’t afraid to throw the younger players in when he could and overall, England carried much more of a forward momentum about their game. England have history done pretty terribly in Test Series in Australia, having won just three of them before. So yes, England are 13/8 underdogs to win the Series with online betting site Betfair. Australia are 8/13 to win Saturday’s First Test, with England at 11/8.
As part of their preparations for the Tour, England ran out a 27-13 win in an international against Wales back at the end of May, the men in white running in five tries in the match. George Ford didn’t take his kicking boots to the party though, landing just one of his seven kicks at goal in the match and chances like can’t afford to be missed like Down Under.
Australia are the second highest ranked side in the world and they have Jones’ former teammate Michael Cheika as head coach. Australia Haven’t played a test match this year and go straight into the three-match series against her English. Their last game was in October last year when they lost against New Zealand at Twickenham while on Tour. Prior to that, they had won seven games on the bounce and posted a W10 L2 record last year (both defeats coming against the All Blacks). England swept the board during the 2016 Six Nations so will be looking to carry forward that great form.
The last time that the two nations met was in October of 2016 at Twickenham, with Australia taking a 33-13 win. England had won the prior two meetings against the Wallabies before that. The overall head to head in internationals between the two stands at 25-18 in favour of Australia with just the one draw having been played out between them. England have won four of the last six meetings, but have that terrible of just three Test Series wins in Australia. England have averaged 15.32 points per game against Australia, while the Australians have averaged 21.36 points per game against the English. Betfair have a 10/11 handicap on a Australia -3 line.
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