Captain's telling denial after England's Jones axing

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England rugby skipper Owen Farrell has moved to region the playing radical from the Eddie Jones axing, saying the Rugby Football Union's determination was "unbelievably disappointing."

The RFU fired the Australian manager past week aft 7 years connected the occupation and starring England to the last of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

But Jones won conscionable 5 of 12 Tests this year, which was England's worst statistical play since 2008.

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There person agelong been rumblings that players became burned retired by the notoriously demanding Jones but Farrell offered his enactment successful an interrogation with the BBC.

"It's unbelievably disappointing," said Farrell, who's begetter Andy is the Ireland coach.

"Eddie had been a large portion of England rugby for a agelong clip present and helium has been 1 of the champion coaches I person ever had so, for that, I'm massively thankful.

"We are disappointed it has finished aboriginal and we beryllium a batch to him. I person been astir for a portion present and not been astir excessively galore changes, some astatine nine and planetary level. It's not pleasant to spell through.

"I don't deliberation it has travel from the players. There is evidently worldly we each privation to get amended astatine from the results, but arsenic players you look astatine yourself and spot what you tin do."

Jones' assistant, Steve Borthwick, is expected to instrumentality the reins for adjacent year's World Cup successful France erstwhile a buyout with Leicester Tigers is agreed.

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Jones, meanwhile, is simply a people of Rugby Australia president Hamish McLennan successful what could beryllium a sensational homecoming to enactment with the Wallabies.

Jones coached Australia to the last of the 2003 World Cup.

"Eddie is intelligibly a monolithic endowment and campaigner successful World Cups," McLennan told the Mail connected Sunday.

"We've got Dave Rennie successful spot but we request to deliberation however we tin weaponise these caller events for Australia if Eddie wants to travel home... Is Australia acceptable for Eddie?

"He is the prodigal coaching son. For the astir part, radical emotion him."

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