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Coaches still back Jones despite poor form

ENGLAND’S coaching team is united behind manager Eddie Jones, insists forwards coach Steve Borthwick as the team look to sign off their disappointing South Africa tour with a victory at Newlands.

The Springboks have built an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series, extending England’s losing run to five Tests and placing Jones’s future in doubt.

Borthwick insists Jones’s coaching lieutenants are similarly supportive of the Australian.

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