Former Wallabies assistant coach Glen Ella believes Australia head coach, Michael Cheika will still be having nightmares after their 3-0 series defeat to England in the summer. ??Ella was Australian assistant coach at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and joined Eddie Jones Australia as assistant coach for the competition in 2003. Jones also brought him into his backroom team during Englands summer tour whitewash of the Wallabies and Ella told the Daily Mail that those defeats will still haunt Cheika.?This is the game Cheiks after. Eddie dominated him big time in June. Cheiks advisors got it wrong and hes probably still having nightmares, said Ella.Eddies a champion at that niggle but Cheiks not scared of him. Hes a tough guy. If he beats England, all is forgiven. It would be one way to redeem a pretty average year.Despite the summer defeats, Australia did beat England the last time the sides met at Twickenham during last years Rugby World Cup group stages. The Wallabies also tagged on victories over Wales, Scotland and Argentina during the competition and a Rugby Championship win over Argentina?at the same stadium.?Australia are going to be really dangerous. They feel at home at Twickenham after the World Cup - theyre comfortable. On their day, they can beat anyone.Jones and Cheika have exchanged words ahead of the game, but Ella insists a coach shouldnt react to everything said about them. One such instance Ella mentioned was the depiction of Jones as a clown in a New Zealand newspaper in the build-up to Australias clash the All Blacks. Even so, he feels Cheika stating that Ireland were the best team in the northern hemisphere will have caused Jones some upset.Cheika reacted too harshly to the clown thing. You cant bite at everything that happens otherwise youre going to die of a heart attack. Sometimes he just got a little bit caught out. Youve got to pick your time to go off.By saying Ireland are probably the best team in the northern hemisphere, he would have upset Eddie a little bit. Hes a very passionate coach and the players love that.For the first six or seven Tests, Cheika was all over the place with selection. Different back rows, different second rows... Now hes got a lot more consistency on this tour. . Jordan Lynch, the all-purpose Heisman Trophy finalist from Northern Illinois, failed to make it into that exclusive club. .05 million next season unless Graham and the Saints subsequently agree on a long-term deal. The designation was released Monday after the deadline passed for NFL teams to use franchise or transition tags on players becoming free agents. . -- On the field, it was business as usual for Jameis Winston and No. . Houston won 3-0 to advance to face New York in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Last in the game, Di Vaio and Romero got into a shoving match with several Houston players. Romero appeared to elbow and kick Houston defender Kofi Sarkodie. . Ibaka equaled a career high with 20 rebounds, adding four blocked shots and 15 points as the Thunder smothered the Milwaukee Bucks offence in a 92-79 victory Saturday night. Tom Coughlin will be joining the NFLs football operations staff, a person with knowledge of the agreement tells The Associated Press.The two-time Super Bowl-winning coach will work closely with Troy Vincent and with the NFLs game-related committees in an advisory role.The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the NFL has not yet announced the hiring.Coughlin won 170 games in his 20 years as an NFL head coach, including the 2007 and 2011 league championships when the Giants beat the Patriots in Super Bowls. He alsso was the original coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars and got them into the playoffs in 1996, their second season.dddddddddddd He left the Giants after they went 6-10 in 2015, their fourth straight season out of the playoffs.Considered an offensive mastermind, Coughlin sought several coaching jobs last offseason, but didnt take any.---AP NFL website:
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