'We're not going to be obsessed about winning the next World Cup... we're going to be obsessed by being better,' insists Jones.
Jones has had stellar professional coaching career that has seen him take an under-performing Wallabies side to a World Cup final in 2003, when Jonny Wilkinson's late drop goal broke Australian hearts - including his own.
He also reinvented Japanese rugby by taking the national team to new heights at the 2015 World Cup, with an historic victory over the Springboks and England's electrifying win over the All Blacks in last year's World Cup semi-final. Despite these achievements, he believes his greatest achievement is yet come - although he admits England's win over New Zealand is a close contender."Beating New Zealand in a semi [final] was satisfying," he said.
"They're a tough team to beat. They have a winning record of 90% and so to beat them in the semi-final after they'd played brilliantly in the quarter final was satisfying. But that put us in a dangerous position for the final and we weren't good enough to get out of that dangerous position. We were being praised and we couldn't get ourselves to the right level, and that was my fault.
But he has no regrets about how England approached that final, saying he wouldn't have done anything differently, just better."I thought we did a great job of getting ourselves back down but getting up to the level you need to be at the World Cup, that we didn't manage to do, and that was the environment I created.
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