Eddie Jones' lack of respect to opponents could come back to bite him - Jim Telfer
Eddie Jones has enjoyed an exceptional start as England coach
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Former Scotland coach Jim Telfer has warned England boss Eddie Jones that his attitude towards opponents might come back to haunt him in the later stages.
Telfer, who coached Scotland to Five Nations championship in 1999 slammed Jones for his comparison with US President Donald Trump and further accused the 57-year-old of disrespecting opponents.
The 76-year-old, who was the coach of British and Irish Lions in their tour of New Zealand in 1983 insisted that if Jones does not change his attitude, it might hamper his ultimate goal of winning the 2019 World Cup for the red rose team.
"Eddie Jones doesn't want to beat teams, he wants to demolish them, which I find a bit disappointing," Telfer told BBC Sport.
"To me he's building his whole team on set-piece and the building of the attack comes secondary.
"Having coached Australia and Japan you would have thought the opposite would be the case.
"The way he speaks, it's a bit like Donald Trump. He wants to be the big man, you know?
"His goal is to win the World Cup in 2019 and so far it's gone well, but I think he could be a little more circumspect, show a bit more respect for the opposition.
"He doesn't seem to show much respect and it could come back to bite him."
The former number eight also launched an attack at Twickenham, stating that an afternoon at the stadium strengthens the case for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.
"Twickenham I find intimidating. The whole atmosphere is intimidating, there's so many of them, three tiers of them," Telfer said.
"If you ever think about wanting separation from England just sit 10 minutes in Twickenham and listen to them.
"They think they're superior and a lot of them will come from the south-east, bags of money and bags of this and bags of that. They don't really appreciate the other team.
"In France they just boo the other team, in Argentina they boo the other team, in England it's just disdain - 'Why are we playing these plebs?'.
"I don't like Twickenham; a concrete jungle, nothing attractive about it at all."
