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In England coach Eddie Jones mind New Zealand control the world of rugby but says the All Blacks are just three percent better than the chasing pack and insists they do have weaknesses. Andrew Kittredge Rays Jersey .England arent due to meet the All Blacks until 2018 but if they continue their rich vein of form then a number of Jones squad are likely to travel with the British & Irish Lions on the New Zealand tour next June.The All Blacks saw off Argentina on Saturday to make it 14 wins on the trot and currently sit atop of the ranking. But Jones says they can be usurped as the worlds best side and believes they are just three percent better than the rest.They [New Zealand] are good, Jones said, speaking on behalf of Mitsubishi Motors as they announced a new partnership with England Rugby. Theyre bloody good. But they are beatable. Like every team, they are beatable.This three percent theory is born from his time at the Brumbies where in his first season in charge they finished tenth. After spending the close-season poring over the statistics behind the poor campaign, he found his side were just the smallest of margins off the leading teams.Thats always stayed with me, people say its 15/20 percent but its not there are small differences, Jones said. If you look at Argentina at the weekend and if they do one or two things differently at crucial times of the game and that result would have been a lot closer.Fitness and ball retention are two areas Jones feels his England team can improve on and he has spent the close season working on developing his three-man coaching team of Neal Hatley, Steve Borthwick and Paul Gustard.He has brought in some of Great Britains top backroom staff to relay their experiences of Rio 2016 and taking a more wide-ranging view over the current state of coaching in rugby, he feels New Zealand have got the right model of developing rugby brains of the future.New Zealand control the world, Jones said. They control every bit of rugby, every law thats changed, New Zealand drive it.They control rugby in so many different countries: in Japan, they are about it control it in Scotland again, the succession plan is already there in place. Wales they control it, Ireland and Georgia. They are a smart country.He added: They develop their coaches in New Zealand; they coach to Super Rugby level, become successful, go overseas and coach the northern hemisphere.So they get a full round of education. They come back to New Zealand; they are ready to coach the All Blacks. Steve Hansen and Graham Henry both had stints in Wales which rounded off their coaching experience.Theres no coincidence in the fact that New Zealand have become a better all-round team. Now their set-piece is second to none.English coaches need to get that other bit of the game which is in the southern hemisphere, which is the unstructured rugby, the organised chaos.Jones was at Sandy Park on Sunday to assess Billy Vunipolas early season form and believes hes racing in the direction of developing into a world-class player as is Owen Farrell. He feels they are setting the benchmark to the rest of their England team-mates.While the All Blacks will be lying in wait in 2018, Jones immediate attention is on the autumn Test series. He is due to confirm his Elite Player Squad on September 30 and will then whittle that down to a 32-man squad to go into a Brighton camp in early October.England will then face South Africa, Fiji, Argentina and Australia over four weekends and if they triumph in each Test then they will have gone a whole calendar year unbeaten. But Jones does not want his team to focus on that target but instead on match-by-match improvement.Our motivation is just to get better, Jones said. We want to be the number one team in the world, New Zealand are head of the pack at the moment but theyre beatable, they have flaws in their game. Matt Duffy Jersey . -- Jonathan Drouin gave Halifax the boost it needed to edge host Sherbrooke Phoenix 3-2 in a shootout in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. Daniel Robertson Rays Jersey . Roman Josi had a goal and an assist to lead the Predators to a 4-1 victory over the Dallas Stars on Monday night. https://www.cheapraysonline.com/1756i-joe-maddon-jersey-rays.html . - The Washington Redskins have cut defensive lineman Adam Carriker and punter Sav Rocca. DETROIT -- It did not take long for Mike Everitt to become persona non grata at Comerica Park on Saturday night.The plate umpire issued four ejections to the Tigers during the teams 3-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels, leaving players and their manager perplexed and a belligerent Detroit crowd in an uproar.After the loss, which snapped a five-game winning streak for Detroit, Tigers right fielder J.D. Martinez was still trying to make sense of his first career ejection -- one that came, he felt, after a fairly innocuous comment in the sixth inning.I dont know, man, he had a short leash today, I guess. I just told him hes having a bad day. Honestly, thats what I said. Youre having a bad day today, huh Mike? Martinez recalled.Martinez said that Everitt asked him to repeat what he said; after he complied with the request, he was tossed. The mild-mannered 28-year-old outfielder almost didnt believe it.I was shocked, Martinez said. I really was. Ive never been ejected in a game. Ive always treated the umpires with respect. Ive never disrespected one. By me saying that youre bad today, I dont feel like thats really an insult. I told him afterward, I was like, Everyone has bad days, Mike. I have bad days. Everyone has bad days. The least you could do is just man up to it.Martinez was the last of four ejections on the night -- which began with designated hitter Victor Martinez being tossed in the bottom of the third inning for arguing balls and strikes.Both Cameron Maybin and Miguel Cabrera were punched out in the bottom of the third by Angels left-hander Brett Oberholtzer -- Maybin went down swinging and Cabrera looking -- before Victor Martinez expressed his displeasure on a strike call from Everitt.Martinez exchanged words with Everitt, placing his hands behind his back, presumably to take a nonaggressive stance while arguing his case, but the theatrics only intensified from there.Martinez grew enraged during the heated exchange with Everitt, prompting Tigers manager?Brad Ausmus and second-base umpire Tim Timmons to intervene. Ausmus had to practically drag Martinez back to the duugout after the ejection, but the 37-year-old veteran continued to yell in Everitts direction even after leaving the field. Joe Maddon Rays Jersey. .According to Martinez and Ausmus, frustration had been mounting from a number of called strikes earlier in the game.If hes going to call those pitches on our hitters, we need those pitches called on their hitters. Thats really the gripe. Simple as that, Ausmus explained.Martinez also threw his helmet from the dugout, and Everitt made a note of that before resuming game action.Ausmus would not speculate on whether Victor Martinez, who was replaced by Tyler Collins as designated hitter, could be facing any supplementary discipline for the action.Everitt later tossed Detroit hitting coach Wally Joyner for arguing the strike zone in the fifth and then ejected Ausmus for arguing on Joyners behalf. It was the 10th career ejection for Ausmus as a manager and the second for Joyner as a coach.Bench coach Gene Lamont took over as Tigers manager.I think there was a number of players in the lineup that were frustrated with some of the pitches that were being called. Its part of the game. Umpires have off nights too. But we felt that it affected our offense tonight, Ausmus said.However, the Tigers manager said he was not worried about Everitt working Sundays series finale against the Angels or any subsequent games this season.No, no. Mike Everitts a professional. Ive known him for years. I thought he had an off night tonight, but I am in no way concerned about him going forward.According to ESPN Stats & Information research, Everitt has ejected six people in 2016, tying him with Dale Scott for most in the majors this season.After the game, Everitt declined to speak with a pool radio reporter but did provide one comment to a pool print reporter.All of the players, as well as the manager and coach, were warned, and sometimes more than once or twice, he said. I will be filing my report with the commissioners office in New York. ' ' '