England v New Zealand, Twickenham, November 21

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England manager Martin Johnson with much maligned assistant John Wells © Getty Images

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Players/Officials Steve Borthwick | Will Greenwood | Martin Johnson

Teams England | New Zealand

World Cup-winner Will Greenwood has warned England manager and former team-mate Martin Johnson he could end up being sacked unless he makes immediate changes to his coaching staff.

Greenwood supported Johnson, who is under increasing pressure as England fail to fire this autumn, but told him he better turn his sights on assistant coaches Mike Ford and John Wells and captain Steve Borthwick before they cause him to lose his job.

"I think Johnson will stay and I think that is the right thing to do - but he has to make some seriously hard decisions. He has to look at his captain and he has to look his coaching staff," Greenwood told Sky Sports News.

"My opinion would be that were he to stay with this captain and were he to stay with this coaching staff then it will only be a matter of time before Johnson will get dragged down with them."

England suffered an 18-9 defeat to Australia before labouring to a 16-9 victory over Argentina last weekend, at one stage being booed by the Twickenham faithful.

Greenwood continued: "I said after the game last week that I thought it was the worst attacking display I had seen from an England team in a long, long time.

"I wondered if I had been too harsh - but when I went home and watched the game again I could have been harsher. There was a catalogue of errors, they looked like they had never met.

"The coaches have to create an environment where guys can come in, feel comfortable and translate their club form on to an international field and we are stunting the ability. Shane Geraghty has paid the price for it. He has been superb for Northampton but he looks like he is playing a different sport for England."

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