Sir Ian McGeechan: How England can beat Australia

Former British and Irish Lions coach Sir Ian McGeechan believes England are good enough to beat Australia in the upcoming three Test series and highlighted four key areas the visitors will need to dominate in a video for The Telegraph: Set piece "The scrum and lineout will be critical. England don't want to be on the back foot in those areas as they were in the World Cup because that will give Australia a chance to get immediately into the game and it will allow them to play to their own strengths.” Getting across the game line "If England can get across the game line early then Australian will have to do everything on the back foot which makes them far less dangerous." Breakdown "I think Eddie Jones will be looking to get his big ball carriers to not just take the ball into contact, but to keep moving forward with support to get rid of the Australian players around the ball so that they can build the tempo of their attack and build continuity which is going to be very importan
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