Eddie Jones tells Danny Cipriani ‘your World Cup dream is on the line’

• England coach tells fly-half ‘everything impacts on selection’
• Jones lays down the law at face-to-face meeting

Eddie Jones has warned Danny Cipriani that any further off-field transgressions will end his chances of playing in next year’s World Cup. Jones travelled to Gloucester this week for a one-on-one meeting with the fly-half and the England coach has made clear he will not pick players who regularly attract adverse publicity.

Speaking in Newcastle, where England will conclude their preparations for next year’s tournament in Japan with a fourth warm-up Test, against Italy at St James’ Park, Jones stressed he had been pleased with Cipriani’s commitment on tour in South Africa during the summer but the 30-year-old’s arrest and court appearance in Jersey following an altercation outside a nightclub last month did not go unnoticed.

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