'Badly distracted' Eddie Jones lashed after sacking

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Eddie Jones' long-awaited sacking has sparked mixed reactions crossed the committee from experienced heads successful satellite rugby.

On Tuesday nighttime (AEDT), it was yet announced that the England Rugby Football Union had "dismissed" Jones.

His departure had agelong been forecast, with stories emerging connected Monday that Jones' bosses were acceptable to spell for the jugular.

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Only an hr earlier his axing, erstwhile Wallabies skipper Matt Giteau foreshadowed his countryman's impending doom.

Giteau's appraisal was terse, summing up a sentiment shared by galore successful the manufacture that sacking Jones excessively adjacent to the 2023 Rugby World Cup would beryllium foolhardy.

"If Eddie Jones gets sacked it would person to beryllium the silliest happening they could bash to the English rugby team," helium wrote connected Twitter.

"He plans and plans and plans years successful beforehand for this competition. It's the 1 contention that helium has got consistently close clip and clip again. Big mistake imo [in my opinion]."

There are those, however, who accidental his tenure won't beryllium remembered fondly.

That's contempt Jones leaving with the highest winning percent for immoderate England coach, which included winning 3 Six Nations Championships and 1 Grand Slam.

In the 81 matches astatine the helm, Jones took England to 59 wins, 20 losses, and 2 draws – a 73 percent triumph grounds each told.

England did suffer a Rugby World Cup nether his reign but was the archetypal to get them to a last since 2007 – successful some instances, England mislaid to South Africa.

Sir Clive Woodward, who coached England betwixt 1997 and 2004, offered a scathing presumption of Jones' tenure, lashing the Australian for taking his oculus disconnected the ball.

"I'm ever atrocious to spot radical suffer their occupation but Eddie Jones has been severely distracted since the past World Cup and he's paid the price," Woodward wrote for the Daily Mail.

"He's a overmuch amended manager than helium has shown implicit the past 3 years. He is simply a shadiness of the Jones I competed with and whose archetypal years with England were truthful palmy and rightfully applauded.

"What volition Jones's bequest be? The semi-final triumph implicit New Zealand astatine the 2019 World Cup was his champion show but unfortunately, helium volition beryllium remembered for the misguided rhetoric and unfulfilled promises.

"I don't deliberation past volition retrieve this play of English rugby excessively kindly."

Woodward scorched Jones for allowing the "media, erstwhile players, penning books and everything else" to distract him from winning what was instantly successful beforehand of him.

"He became wholly focused connected the 2023 World Cup and that was a costly error," Woodward continued.

"International rugby is precise simple: absorption everything connected the adjacent crippled with perfectly zero distractions. The fans who pump the wealth into the athletics didn't bargain his hype."

Perhaps the astir vocal batch has been the fans who were near booing aft England drew with the All Blacks successful their penultimate outpouring circuit Test.

There were calls for Jones to mend that narration – though the writing, it seemed, was connected the partition for a agelong time.

Media ace David Pembroke, who worked with Jones for a agelong time, labelled England Rugby Football Union main enforcement Bill Sweeney arsenic "slippery" and made accusations of leaking stories. Now, Jones is gone.

England reportedly already has its sights connected a caller manager successful the signifier of Steve Borthwick from Leicester Tigers.

With a pay-out to Jones and a buy-out of Borthwick, it's a costly workout for English rugby tallying adjacent to $2.2 million.

Whatever the lawsuit whitethorn be, it's a abbreviated lead-up to the Rugby World Cup comprising conscionable 9 Tests.

England volition look Argentina successful their archetypal Rugby World Cup lucifer connected September 9 adjacent year.

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