Welcome home Eddie Jones… England coach gets ‘shunted around customs’ and says it’s a sign of things to come for Test series

Home sweet home: Eddie Jones has touched down in his homeland
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Chris Jones2 June 2016

Eddie Jones today accused his fellow countrymen of starting a co-ordinated campaign to unsettle his England squad after he was “shunted” through Australian customs and had his bags searched on arrival in Brisbane for the Test series.

England’s head coach, who also led Australia to the 2003 World Cup Final, was singled out for a bag check and used the incident to get his first dig in at the locals.

The bag searches most often are conducted at random but Jones believes he was targeted.

After arriving today, Jones said: “I just went through immigration and I got shunted through the area where everything got checked.

“That’s what I’m expecting. Everything that’s done around the game is going to be co-ordinated.

"All co-ordinated to help Australia win. We’ve got to be good enough to control what we can control.”

The Three-Test contest starts on June 11 in Brisbane and England headed straight from the airport to the Gold Coast, where they will prepare to win a first series in Australia.

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