The Eddie Jones era at the helm of English rugby has begun in fine style with a first Grand Slam in 13 years.
The Red Rose was in full bloom during the 2016 RBS 6 Nations Championship and here we pick their five best tries from their victorious campaign. England opened up their Championship with a daunting trip to BT Murrayfield but an early try from George Kruis settled the nerves.
But it was winger Jack Nowell who got the game’s decisive score in the right corner after some slick handling from Mako Vunipola had worked an overlap.
After holding off Scotland, next up was a trip to Rome to face the plucky Italians.
Jonathan Joseph’s second-half hat-trick took the plaudits but it was Owen Farrell’s late score that caught the eye.
George Ford fired a perfect flat pass on the gainline to Jamie George and the hooker found his clubmate Farrell with a slick offload to put the centre under the posts. England were starting to click into gear…
In the third round of games Jones took charge of his first Twickenham clash but they had to weather a storm against Ireland.
Trailing 10-9 in the second half a superb long cut out pass from Chris Robshaw did the business to leave
Anthony Watson a simple run in. Robshaw’s fine displays all Championship were the perfect antidote to last year’s World Cup woe.
Wales were the next visitors to South West London and the best 50 minutes of the Jones era so far saw England take a 19-0 lead.
The only try in building up the lead came from that man Watson again and it was the superb Maro Itoje who created it with a clean break down the left.
And finally the Grand Slam was secured in Paris and it was the re-called Danny Care who set them on their way.
With the score locked a 3-3 early on, the scrum-half spotted a gap around the ruck, fended off Jefferson Poirot and ran fully 40m for a superb solo score under the sticks.
England never trailed after that and history was secured.
