The RFU is spending £50m rebuilding the eastern half of Twickenham. It is putting up a new rooftop rose garden, restaurant and music stage to make the old cabbage patch more welcoming. England, and Eddie Jones, of course, want to do the very opposite thing. The harder their visitors find it here, the happier they’ll be. And since the East Stand is a mess at the moment, all scaffolding, plyboard and piles of breezeblocks, Jones’s work is a lot further along than the builders’. England have not lost here since he took charge, their last defeat that 20-point thrashing, so much more painful than even that scoreline suggests, to Australia in the pool stages of the World Cup. A lot has changed since then, and this Saturday it felt an ugly, unforgiving, intimidating place to come and play. Jones will be delighted.
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