England coach Eddie Jones has warned the typhoon may have a major disruption over the World Cup in Japan, but says he’s contingency plans in place to take care of it.
Typhoon Faxai moved northwest on the Pacific towards Japan on Saturday, threatening to make landfall near Tokyo the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
England are due to leave on Sunday Japan and the season typhoon – packing winds of up to 180kph – will be expected to reach regions of the Kanto area between late Sunday and early Monday.
Tournament organisers have planned for the possibility of having to relocate groups or games to places.
The stadiums from the USA at Kobe and Tonga at Sapporo, for the first two games of England, have roofs and Jones claims the team will train indoors on turf.
“It is going to affect the World Cup, there’s no doubt about it,” Jones said after his side’s 37-0 win over Italy at England’s closing warm-up game in Newcastle.
“You’ve just got to ride with it, be elastic and figure out how you can handle the situation.
“Once the typhoon comes, you just can not go outside. It’s essentially a lock-down. It can vary between being quite violent to mild.
“The issue is you can not go outside but we have got ideas of what we do whether a typhoon stopped us training outside. We’ll instruct on artificial turf indoors.”
Jones is preparing to get a noticeable change in conditions after playing with four warm-up matches on pitches.
Jones, who has a Japanese-American mother and is married to Hiroko Jones, a Japanese girl he met while teaching in Sydney, is knowledgeable about the perils, having lived for periods in Japan.
Prior to being appointed as head coach of the national team before the 2015 Rugby World Cup at 2012, he coached club teams in Japan.
“South Africa played Japan [on Friday] and it had been very hot and very humid,” he explained. “There was lots of dropped ball, it was quite greasy, which could raise the quantity of hanging”

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