Eddie Jones

Eddie Jones has been sacked as England head coach after seven years in charge, just nine months out from the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

Eddie Jones has been sacked as England head coach just nine months out from the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

“It is important to recognise the huge contribution Eddie has made to English rugby, winning three Six Nations Championships, one Grand Slam and taking us to a ...

[@EnglandRugby]men's head coach – Jones was also the first coach to guide England to a 100% Test record in a calendar year since Geoff Cooke in 1992 (6/6), winning all 13 Tests during his first year in charge in 2016. England suffered their first defeat at the hands of Argentina since 2009 and their first home loss to Los Pumas in 16 years. He has provided the panel with astute insight and meaningful lessons that will support the team performance going forward.” He was also the first England coach to complete a perfect year since Geoff Cooke in 1992, winning all 13 of his Tests in 2016. “I am grateful to Eddie for all he has done for England across many areas of the game and the professional way in which he has approached reviewing the performance of the team. Eddie Jones has been relieved of his duties as England Rugby head coach less than a year out from the Rugby World Cup in France.

Eddie Jones's roller-coaster ride as England coach came to an end on Tuesday when he was sacked by the Rugby Football Union.

"The RFU will now conclude the long-term work it has been undertaking on coach succession planning with changes set to be announced in the near future. "Like them we are really disappointed with the results. "Following a review of the Autumn Nations Series, Eddie Jones has been dismissed from the position of England Head Coach," the RFU said in a statement.

Eddie Jones has been sacked as England head coach after seven years in charge, just 10 months out from the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

Eddie Jones was sacked as England rugby coach on Tuesday, some seven years after the Australian was appointed to the role.

London - Eddie Jones's roller-coaster ride as England coach came to an end on Tuesday when he was sacked by the Rugby Football Union following a review into their November series that ended with the team being booed off the pitch at Twickenham.

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Planet Rugby's James While reflects on Eddie Jones' tenure after news of his departure from the England head coach role was confirmed on Tuesday.

It would be unthinkable to believe that a new full-time coach won’t be appointed very shortly and, at the very least, by the end of December with a January start date. When Covid hit in 2020, it restricted the development of planning, and England was reduced to a tighter bubble squad of 28. Loyalty – there’s a word that is so close to the Jones persona- he demanded it completely from those around him but gave it back to all of those that worked with him. His myopic focus on winning a world cup possibly opacified a wider lens on winning Six Nations, leaving a tournament that was valued highly by fans as a Petrie dish of Eddie’s experimentation when it needed to be a structural plank of success. For the journalists in front of him, you had to earn his respect through personal rugby knowledge over and above an ability to present to a camera or to write tabloid headlines. [Jones](https://www.planetrugby.com/tag/Eddie-Jones/) without first deciding on their route to a successor smacks of a need to be seen to do something – whether that decision be right or wrong.

Eddie Jones is one of the most charismatic figures in world rugby...but he drove players and coaches to breaking point before he was sacked as England coach ...

Either that or, as some would have it, they have been intimidated by him and were just waiting for an excuse to get rid of him. A former member of the Wallabies technical staff recalled how, when his marriage was breaking up, Jones offered to fly from England to provide support. Players who were driven to the edge of breaking point, administrators who found Jones difficult to work with, and support staff worn down by his exacting expectations. It will be interesting to see how over time the Pommies go.' They can't keep up with his obsessive pursuit of excellence; the daily 6am meetings, incessant video analysis, incredibly long hours and what one former assistant described as his 'infamous verbal sprays'. In 2003 he took the Wallabies to the final. Eddie has gone through assistant coaches like a kid eating a packet of M&Ms since day one. Dual international Wendell Sailor told how, after he was banned for cocaine use, he was cut off by Rugby Australia but Jones would ring regularly to check on the welfare of him and his family. Much as he is a master coach, Eddie Jones has another skill. In 2015 his Japan side pulled off arguably the biggest upset in the game's history when they beat the Springboks and, four years later, he took England to the final. It's the one competition he's got consistently right time and time again.' After all, over the past seven seasons Jones had recorded a 73 percent success rate in his 81 matches in charge, better than any other England coach.

Eddie Jones, who had been in charge since 2015, was relived of his England duties this morning following a review into his position after a very tough ...

[The World Cup’s] the one competition that he has got consistently right time and time again.” Richard Cockerill takes interim charge, ahead of the expected appointment of Steve Borthwick as Jones’ successor. “I am grateful to Eddie for all he has done for England across many areas of the game and the professional way in which he has approached reviewing the performance of the team.

Woodward famously beat Jones' Wallabies team in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final and hasn't pulled any punches in his summation of his former competitor's tenure ...

“What will Jones’ legacy be? “He is a much better coach than he has shown over the past three years. “International rugby is very simple: focus everything on the next game with absolutely zero distractions.

Eddie Jones seven-year run as head coach will be heralded as a great period for England rugby, with three Six Nations titles, a Grand Slam and a World Cup ...

He was sitting at the top of perhaps the greatest conveyor belt of talent in England Rugby’s history over the decade leading up to the 2019 World Cup. From 2016 to 2018 the England U20 side made three more finals and won another World Championship title in 2016. But it’s not just about winning three knockout games every four years for the RFU, it’s about everything else in between as well. Only France stood in the way of another U20 Six Nations title. [Rugby World Cup](https://www.rugbypass.com/rugby-world-cup/) based on the success of their U20 programme. Ireland have beaten everyone except France in the last two years. It looked bleak at the time, but below the surface England were about to enjoy riches and Jones must have known that when he took up the position. It is great entertainment for the game, who needs characters like Jones. Over the same period, they took home four of five possible U20 Six Nations titles. Jones deserves a healthy amount of credit for leading them through this prosperous period, but it was not all down to Eddie’s methods. He leaves with an exceptional winning rate of 74 per cent over his tenure. An 18-Test winning streak spoke magnitudes of greatness.

It was 10.15am when Jones left Twickenham for the final time. He stepped through the revolving doors of the stadium's hotel bar, and made a swift dash ...

Jones's assistants were next to turn up, ready for a coaching review of the dismal autumn campaign that had been in the diary since last week. There had been one last act of defiance before the Australian sped off into the distance. 'You'll have to ask the RFU,' he said, with glazed eyes, pointing up towards the office of his former CEO Bill Sweeney.