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Complacency is Englands greatest danger ahead of Saturdays Test at Twickenham against Australia, according to Eddie Jones, but the England coach has the perfect safeguard against slipping into personal contentment: his wife Hiroko.Every time I go home she says, Youd better win this week, so its simple, Jones said, when asked how he keeps his own feet on the ground as England look to secure their 14th win on the bounce on Saturday.Hirokos role in cancelling out complacency is yet to extent to the England team so it has been Jones keeping a close eye on any signs of players letting up as they chase the unbeaten year. He looks for slips like players skipping optional ice bath or steam sessions and that all-seeing eye has also extended to the coaching staff as they all prepare for a match labelled Englands cup final.England are without seven first-team players for Saturdays Test but Jones has 2019 vision and sees this as a chance to build a team with a strength in depth capable of winning the next World Cup.He is someone who looks forward, rather than back, but is wary of Australia. He is anticipating a hungry Wallabies side on Saturday, one still wounded from their 3-0 series drubbing in the summer.Youre always sitting next to complacency or looking ahead too much, Jones said. Thats a constant battle. Were at our most vulnerable now. At training this week weve been a bit iffy at stages. Thats not such a bad thing; it helps to keep complacency from the door.The only way you get over the top of that is to have the correct mindset and thats an individual responsibility to get right. For me the rugby is always important -- but to be the best in the world you have to be like [Muhammad] Ali. Go for those road runs every morning at 5am when no one notices.From a team perspective were in a reasonable state. Individually, over the next 48 hours, the players will find their right state and we need them to be right on the ball.It has been a week of verbal grenades with Jones starting the war of words on Saturday with comments over Australias scrum. Michael Cheika has since fired back but this verbal tennis rally between the two camps stretches back to the June tour, with Cheika saying this week he feels Jones has tarnished his legacy Down Under following comments deemed vitriolic during their summer series.But speaking on Thursday, Jones refused to be drawn on Cheikas views with the response ask Cheik to any questions around comments from the Australian camp. At one point Jones defiantly fired back with a rhetoric response to another question over Cheikas comments.Do you think that Im the sort of person who worries about peoples opinion of me? he said.The one thing that did seem to irk the England coach was Cheika revealing earlier this week that Jones stormed out of a pre-match meeting with a referee back in June. Jones said he had different codes of behaviour adding that if you have a private meeting it stays private.There is perhaps more of a bounce in Jones step this week; that distinguishing grin was hard to shift. Hed never admit an element of personal pride over a potential win versus Australia but did conced he was distraught when sacked by the Wallabies in 2004.There are subplots aplenty ahead of Saturday.Off-field verbal jousting, coaching a team 13 on the bounce and Australia in his adopted backyard -- Jones is in his element. 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"Ma fee ahh aushway!" he shouts happily following the fourth day of Montreal Alouettes training camp. Its some kind of French, and the man from Idaho wouldve bellowed it as loud on any corner along Rue Sainte-Catherine if he could. "Accouchée," says Alouettes communications director Charles Rooke, quietly. "Accouchée!" Hawkins says quickly. "OK, Im getting there, Im trying to work on it" A long time ago, Vince Lombardi said: "Confidence is contagious, so is lack of confidence." Hawkins is not like the austere, granite-faced Green Bay Packers head coach. He has a bright, oval face, and ostensibly two expressions: smiling and smiling wider. And he hasnt won two Super Bowls. "Ma...fille... a...accouchée" Hawkins says slowly, acting as if he cant hear Rooke take him gently through each syllable. "Yeah, Im a grandpa. I had another grandchild today. "Big news of the day." What you need to know, less than a week into his professional and CFL head coaching career, is that Dan Hawkins is an uncomplicated man, who shares Lombardis fondness for uncomplicated creeds. "Quit trying to win, just be a winner," is what Hawkins is telling the Alouettes — his team — now. Montreal general manager Jim Popp has always recruited from unconventional places. Hawkins helped make Boise State relevant in NCAA football a decade ago, then wasnt as successful at Colorado State. His record as a college head coach is 112-61-1. His record as a professional head coach is 0-0-0. That number will be scrutinized far more intensely than Anthony Calvillos age — hell be 41 in August — because Marc Trestman refined NFL quarterbacks — Bernie Kosar, Jake Plummer and Rich Gannon — before leading the Alouettes to back-to-back Grey Cups. Hes parlayed those accomplishments into the top job with the Chicago Bears. The last few years Hawkins worked as a college football analyst for ESPN. So, what has he learned halfway through his first week as a professional head coach? "Youre a professional, right?" Hawkins says, narrowing his eyes, but without a hint of agitation. "So would your boss or your supervisor treat you any different — I would hope not — if you were an intern or you were getting paid? "I mean, these coaches are professional, so Im coaching coaches as well. Youre always picking things up. I think the biggest thing — for me and these guys — you certainly know things about [players] on film, but all I told them is all we know is what we know." That sounds like coach-speak — all cleverly tied words. Dont talk about leading, coach, just lead. And in the middle of the central Quebec countryside — something off J. E. H. MacDonalds easel — Hawkins breaks the green calmness with a bit of West Coast volume. "Here we go, here we go, here we go!" he shouts as he runs here and there. The sound cuts through the wind and rolls over the hills. Blink and the man in the red cap is behind the quarterbacks near the far end zone. Blink again, hes there pacing around the running backs. Blink, there he is, this time between the tackles before a special teams drill. He shouts and moves his arms, and his players follow. Give this man the football. It is the kind of energy Edmonton head coach Kavis Reed has too, but it has been sharpened over nearly 20 years in the CFL. Conversely, if Hawkinss energy and passion is undressed and transparent; he just wants his players to reveal the same.dddddddddddd "Until you see a guy play and perform consistently out here and do it, you build that trust of Yeah OK, youre that player and see him turn it on and turn it off successfully," the coach says. "Then youre going OK he is that player...and you do the same thing in college really." One of the few times Hawkins stands still is when scuffles flare. Rookie defensive back Michael Parker takes exception to a tackle from slotback Jamel Richardson, and all fall silent as the two broad men curse and grab at one another. They are separated quickly, but the intensity bubbles over. Teammates sneer and hoot at each other. Bodies slam together, harder and harder. Running back Brandon Whitaker says someone pulled him from behind during a scrimmage, sticking his right knee in the turf, irritating the scar tissue of his surgically repaired right knee. "I know it is a long season, and I told the guys, Im not stupid, Im really not, and you cant do this everyday, you cant. It is ludicrous, Hawkins says. "But when we go, we have to be able to go, that is what I asked of them, and they did it. I think nothing good happens without passion." "He just loves what he is doing and you love playing for a guy like that," Whitaker says. "He is the boss." Hawkins has to be. Decisions in September and October are hard to prepare for in June, but there is one challenge that might be unavoidable: What if there comes a situation where he has to pull Calvillo – still, and forevermore, the most important Alouette — out of a game, because... "Because, what?" Hawkins asks. Fill in the blank. "[Calvillo] is going to be smart with us, whether it is his play or his body or the plays or the people and all that kind of thing. Who knows? Maybe hell again outlast another coach." Maybe...but Hawkins is not a promise-maker, not a dreamer, not a planner; hes apparently climbed mountains, ran with bulls, swam with sharks. The tangible is what matters. Consecutive home playoff defeats over the last two seasons, and perhaps an increasing reliance on a thoroughly prepared playbook, have diminished some of aura of dominance that has emanated from the Alouettes for over a decade. Remember: "Quit trying to win, just be a winner." In the opening nights of training camp, Hawkins showed Calvillo and other players footage of 11-team NBA Champion Bill Russell. "You say, OK quit trying to win, just be a winner, Well who are the winners? What do they do? You can study the losers as well because you can learn from them, but what do the great ones [do]? That is why I dont read a lot of fiction, because Im trying to go: What did [an actual person] do? And what can I learn from him? And what can I pass on to the guys? To me, that is how I put together that whole game plan." Maybe what the Alouettes need now is a man of action. The rookie pro learning drill to drill, too, running around the field, missing only his own pads and cleats. If he had a tether in his hand, he wouldve pulled 80-odd, massive men with him. "I dont know the exact word to put for it, but it is definitely exciting," says Whitaker. "When we sit in meetings we get excited. We see the ball going down the field, the runs...it is just little details that weve got to continue to work on." Its infectious isnt it? "It definitely is, and it rubs off on everybody. Everybody is excited about it." ' ' '