England lock George Kruis has joined Eddie Jones in taking aim at Italy on the eve of Saturday's Guinness Six Nations clash at Twickenham.
Jones stated that the Azzurri can be a gifted team if their head coach Conor O'Shea takes a positive approach – a reference to the controversial no-ruck tactics employed by the Irishman at the same venue two years ago.
It is a view echoed by Kruis, who forms a second-row partnership alongside Joe Launchbury after Maro Itoje was definitively ruled out by forwards coach Steve Borthwick because of a knee injury.
