England’s performance against Australia in the first of their four home Autumn Series Tests was rusty, which was only to be expected after a seven-month gap since the entire squad was together for the last Six Nations.
It’s also fair to say that while they won convincingly, they will have to improve significantly to beat New Zealand on Saturday.

It won’t have been easy for new attack coach Lee Blackett to get players combining effectively straight away at Twickenham after a summer in which half the squad were away with England in the Americas, and the other half with the Lions in Australia...