Sunday 5 June 2016 22:39, UK
Eddie Jones has admitted England's hopes of completing a series victory over Australia hinge on the outcome of the first Test in Brisbane on Saturday.
The Grand Slam champions' June tour is the first time the rivals have met over three games and in 17 previous meetings Down Under, the Wallabies have triumphed in all but three and never lost the fixture in four clashes at Suncorp Stadium.
While Jones is refusing to write off England's chances of winning if they succumb in the opening Test, he knows the importance of the result cannot be over-stated.
"We have to win the first one - that's what the series is about, the first Test," Jones said.
"There are two Tests to go after that, but the first is going to set up one side to win the series and you want to be the side that wins the series.
"We want to win the first Test and if we do that, we put ourselves in positions to do all sorts of things and that's our target.
"We don't have any excuses. We've come here to put our best foot forward and if we're good enough, we're going to win. If it's not good enough, we'll go back home and we'll learn."
Jones has pledged to adopt a 'Bodyline' approach to facing the World Cup finalists, in reference to the bowling tactics used by Douglas Jardine's Ashes winners of 1932-33.
The Australian wants his tourists to play with the same level of aggression in the belief that only performances of furious intensity will be enough to secure a series victory that would identify England as a genuine force in the game.
"The players realise they have got to do something different. To create history - and that's what we are trying to do - we have to do something different," Jones said.
"Christopher Columbus didn't discover America by swimming in his own back yard. He had to get in a boat and leave and not see anything. That's exactly what we have to do.
"We are in a position where we have to do something no other side has done and to do that, we have to do things differently."
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