The 'bizarre' Jones apology that turned nasty

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Eddie Jones' reign arsenic England manager is implicit and it's improbable he'll ever return.

In the aftermath of his axing by the Rugby Football Union, it became wide that those astatine caput bureau were motivated to person him removed, alternatively than the players.

Incumbent skipper Owen Farrell spoke of the disappointment successful Jones' sacking, indicating that the squad had relished his clip astatine the top.

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It's nary concealed that Jones tin beryllium prickly with his players and unit and it appears that was the lawsuit during his stint with England, with 1 bizarre communicative from a erstwhile subordinate surfacing successful the aftermath of Jones' axing.

Appearing connected Rugby Pass' Offload podcast, Joe Simpson told the communicative of an incidental successful which Jones fooled a subordinate of the coaching unit into reasoning helium was making amends aft giving him a spray.

Simpson, who precocious announced his status from nonrecreational rugby, made 1 commencement for England successful the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

The seasoned of astir 250 appearances for the Wasps wasn't coached by Jones but recalls an incidental successful which 1 of the polarising Australian's offsiders was berated.

Simpson recounted, "He's fixed a manager an implicit rollicking successful a gathering before, earlier successful the day.

"[Jones] calls him up aboriginal connected and is like, 'Look, I privation to apologise to you, the mode I spoke to you, blah blah blah, successful beforehand of everyone successful beforehand of the coaches meeting'. He [the coach] was like, 'fair enough'.

"[Jones said] 'I bought you a steak. You instrumentality it location and you devour it with your missus, you bask yourself' – conscionable an apology.

"The bloke goes location and says to his wife, 'That was bizarre, he's fixed maine a steak'. So they get it retired and there's conscionable a battalion of sausages successful there.

"He thinks that's weird and gets a substance from [Jones] aboriginal being like, 'You're not acceptable for steak, you're a sausage. Up your game'.

"He's like, 'How bash I transportation connected this occupation if I'm getting abused by my boss?' But if you look astatine the turnover he's had successful coaches, if coaches privation to get retired of their declaration they tin spell to HR and say, 'These are each the emails and substance messages that I've got from Eddie, I privation to get retired of this declaration immediately, and they'll beryllium like, 'Oh, OK. We'll support it hush, you tin permission somewhat earlier if you want'."

It's not the archetypal clip Jones' attack has been criticised.

New Zealand-born Japanese planetary Luke Thompson spoke aft Jones' exit from the England rostrum – echoing Simpon's sentiment.

The now-retired subordinate said a "dichotomy of personalities" was to blasted for the separation betwixt Jones and England.

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"He's a genius erstwhile it comes to rugby successful presumption of his quality to compression each spot of imaginable retired of what helium has," Thompson told the Associated Press.

"But the mode helium runs things I don't judge is sustainable.

"That seven-year play helium has had with England, sometimes that tin beryllium excessively long. A four-year stint with him was astir apt capable for Japan."

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Simpson said Jones' hard-nosed coaching benignant near galore bemused and emotionally damaged.

"He conscionable abuses anyone who works for him," Simpson added.

"Even information guards are conscionable shadows of their erstwhile selves aft coming into interaction with him.

"People travel backmost perfectly shells of their erstwhile selves. They're truthful relieved to beryllium location and they tin get into their furniture and slumber properly.

"Players spell distant and person breached slumber for six to 8 weeks of Six Nations. They can't slumber decently due to the fact that of anxiousness that helium causes. It's perfectly berserk."

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Jones volition manager the Barbarians successful a one-off lucifer successful May, 2023. Outside of that, Jones' aboriginal successful planetary rugby remains up successful the air.

Australia has sounded retired the seasoned for a relation starring into the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

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