'Keep blaming me': Eddie's shot at England successor

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Wallabies manager Eddie Jones has encouraged his England successor to "keep blaming me" for the team's struggles, portion informing supporters to brace for "more pain" successful 2023.

England manager Steve Borthwick raised eyebrows aft losing his archetypal Test successful complaint against Scotland, stating the broadside helium inherited from Jones "weren't bully astatine anything."

Jones and Borthwick person a agelong past together, with the Australian archetypal signing the large fastener astatine Saracens earlier grooming him arsenic an adjunct manager with Japan and England.

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And Jones was fixed the accidental to respond to Borthwick's stinging appraisal connected his caller podcast, Eddie, with long-time confidant David Pembroke.

"Yeah, well, he's astir apt right. And that was portion of the problem," said Jones, who was fired by England past twelvemonth aft 7 mostly palmy seasons.

"You know, we were trying to morph a squad that had been a precise bully acceptable piece, a precise bully kicking team. I deliberation the mode the crippled is played astatine the moment, that'll triumph you games but it's astir apt not bully capable to beryllium a World Cup champion.

"And truthful expanding the onslaught past sometimes takes distant from your strengths and they're going done a hard play present wherever they're trying to get the equilibrium close successful a game, but Steve volition hole it. There's nary uncertainty he'll hole it and support blaming me.

"That's each right. I've got a beauteous beardown backmost and beauteous beardown shoulders to sorb that."

Borthwick's debut Test successful complaint was ruined by Duhan van der Merwe's precocious effort arsenic Scotland opened its Six Nations run with a 29-23 triumph astatine Twickenham.

And Jones had immoderate cutting observations to marque astir the team's tactics.

"It was interesting, England went with a agelong kicking game, which is reminiscent of however Steve coached astatine Leicester and the kicking crippled ended up costing him 2 tries connected footwear return," Jones said.

"Scotland, with Duhan van der Merwe, were perfectly outstanding successful returning the shot and they won that footwear instrumentality game... England is inactive going done a rebuilding stage.

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"You know, everyone wants it to beryllium done and finished. But erstwhile you've got a young 15, a young 10, a young nine, a young 8 - Freddie (Steward) and Marcus (Smith) person inactive played nether 20 caps.

"Jack (van Poortvliet) astatine nine's played nether 10 caps and Alex Dombrandt's astir apt lone started successful six oregon 7 Tests, not a batch of tests.

"And those guys, you know, erstwhile you're young players, inconsistency, unluckily is portion of your apprenticeship astatine Test level, and you get that small spot of up and down successful performance, lapses successful attraction but arsenic they physique their Tests up and they physique the maturity up to play Test level, they're going to beryllium truly bully players.

"So yeah, there's astir apt a small spot much symptom to spell for England, which is hard for the supporters and hard for the coaches, but I'm definite they'll get done it."

England big Italy successful the 2nd circular of the Six Nations connected Monday (AEDT).

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