4 years, 5 months ago

Eddie Jones fears disrupted Premiership season has skewed England selection process

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Eddie Jones fears the disrupted finish to the Premiership season has made it significantly harder to spot the best talent emerging through the English system, with a depleted squad about to embark on finishing their Six Nations campaign before playing in the inaugural Autumn Nations Cup. “I think there is always talent coming through, sometimes it comes through a bit quicker than others,” Jones said after England’s first three-day training camp in south-west London concluded this week. “We feel like we have scoured the roads – I think I have done 8,000 miles in the last eight or 10 weeks looking at games, looking at the quality of players coming through and we feel we have got a pretty good idea who we want to look at.” The result of that issue, along with the absence of half of the Premiership clubs in this first training camp squad, is the inclusion of several unknown quantities – at least at international level – that the England coach wants to take a closer look at in a testing environment. He went out picking fruit during lockdown to help support his family and all those things count, so we are looking forward to working with him.” Clement was one of six new faces in the England this week, although Jones will be able to change the make-up of his training camp now with players from Wasps and Bath now available along with Sale and Worcester.

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4 months ago

Jamie George warns England to prepare for unexpected from Eddie Jones

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4 months ago

Complex legacy of Eddie Jones era adds intrigue to England’s must-win clash with Japan

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Steve Borthwick distances himself from Eddie Jones allegations as selection continuity shows clear contrast

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9 months ago

Eddie Jones sends England warning and reveals Japan’s danger man

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1 year, 5 months ago

Eddie Jones commits his coaching future to Australia amid Japan rumours

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1 year, 5 months ago

IAN HERBERT: No shock that lump-hammer Eddie Jones is back in crash and burn mode with Australia

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Since being sacked by England in 2022, his career has gone from bad to worse Australia are on the verge of World Cup elimination after their defeat by Wales Eddie Jones would no doubt contend that such things are nonsense — just like the nickname of the Japanese national team, which he hated, mate, because ‘Brave Blossoms’ does not conform …

1 year, 6 months ago

‘Inept, shameful, embarrassing’: Australia legends call for Eddie Jones’ head in furious backlash

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Call it whatever you want – Rugby Australia’s worst nightmare has come true, plunging the struggling code into a crisis it may never recover from. Much worse.” Alan Jones, former Australia coach “In the interests of gifted young players, who would love to play rugby, Eddie Jones must now stick to his promise, accept our thanks for his good intentions, …

1 year, 6 months ago

Eddie Jones brings noise and unpredictability - but also gives Australia a proven route to success at the Rugby World Cup

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1 year, 6 months ago

Not enough talent coming through: Eddie Jones blames RFU for England’s poor form

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2 years, 2 months ago

Eddie Jones speaks out on the bitter end to his time with England

Daily Mail

Suddenly, it all goes quiet… for several seconds. Eddie Jones was abruptly sacked as England head coach in December after seven years ‘I can’t give an answer to that because the whole fact that anyone would think that is beyond comprehension,’ he says — just about suppressing the temptation to detonate. Jones will now coach rugby following Hamish McLennan's plan …

2 years, 2 months ago

Eddie Jones tipped to have big impact on Australia ahead of World Cup

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2 years, 2 months ago

'I'm ready to get revenge on England!': Jones sets sights on knocking former side out of World Cup

Daily Mail

Eddie Jones has his sights set on ‘retribution’ — as he is already looking ahead to the prospect of his Australia side knocking England out of this year’s World Cup. England could face Australia at the Rugby World Cup, in what would be a reunion for Jones ‘If we happen to meet England on the way, well and good. You …

2 years, 3 months ago

Sacked England coach Eddie Jones says he ‘wouldn’t do anything differently’

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2 years, 3 months ago

Eddie Jones to learn England fate next week after RFU review

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2 years, 3 months ago

Eddie Jones hits back at ‘sad’ Sir Clive Woodward over England criticism

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2 years, 3 months ago

England have left it too late to sack Eddie Jones before World Cup, says South Africa’s Handre Pollard

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2 years, 5 months ago

Eddie Jones insists he has no plans to retire when his England contract ends next year

Daily Mail

Eddie Jones has confirmed that he intends to carry on coaching until the 2027 World Cup – as he prepares for his final year in charge of England. Eddie Jones has been England coach for seven years and will leave after the 2023 World Cup With the knock-out stages of the next World Cup looming 12 months from now, Jones …

2 years, 9 months ago

Eddie Jones goes back to the future in attempt to salvage England’s summer and potentially his job

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3 years, 1 month ago

Eddie Jones details what he wants from his ‘new England’ against Italy in Rome

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3 years, 1 month ago

Eddie Jones backs Marcus Smith to step up for England and deal with a stormy Murrayfield

Daily Mail

Eddie Jones is convinced that Marcus Smith will rise to the biggest occasion of his career on Saturday — by handling the high stakes and potentially dire conditions at Murrayfield. As expected, Harlequins’ playmaker prodigy has retained his place at No 10, despite the absence of injured captain Owen Farrell, who was due to have been alongside the 22-year-old to …

3 years, 4 months ago

Eddie Jones defends coaching style and England staff turnover after criticism

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3 years, 6 months ago

The big issues behind Eddie Jones’ 45-man England training squad

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3 years, 9 months ago

Eddie Jones believes fresh blood could improve England’s World Cup prospects

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4 years, 1 month ago

CLIVE WOODWARD: Eddie Jones is being too loyal to his England players

Daily Mail

Looking at the team Eddie Jones has picked to play Wales tomorrow it feels like last-chance saloon for this England group, the class of 2019 if you like. Eddie Jones' England side have flattered to deceive recently and things need shaking up England have looked a tired, uninspired outfit ever since. And how dispiriting must it be for in-form players …

4 years, 1 month ago

Eddie Jones vows England’s faltering leaders will return to their best

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4 years, 2 months ago

Harry Randall too appetising a talent for Eddie Jones to ignore

The Telegraph

Eddie Jones has watched impassively as his Wales head coach Wayne Pivac has raided Callum Sheedy and Johnny Williams from his long list of uncapped England squad call-ups. The England head coach may not be so relaxed should Pivac make a move for Bristol Bears scrum half Harry Randall, who was born in Slough but spent most of his childhood …

4 years, 3 months ago

England vs France: Eddie Jones unconcerned by absence of French players for Autumn Nations Cup final

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4 years, 4 months ago

England head coach Eddie Jones stirs it up ahead of Ireland showdown at Twickenham

Daily Mail

Eddie Jones was in vintage pre-match form on Thursday, turning the heat up on Ireland by addressing the legality of their scrum and their prospects of success at Twickenham on Saturday. England coach Eddie Jones turned up the heat on Ireland ahead of Saturday's showdown He was asked to assess Ireland’s comfortable win over Wales in Dublin last Friday night …

4 years, 5 months ago

Eddie Jones wary of mental strain as England squad brace for life in bio-secure bubble

The Independent

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Twenty-seven of the 28 players selected by Jones for this week’s training …

4 years, 8 months ago

Eddie Jones exclusive interview: 'I look for players with difficult backgrounds. That resonates with me'

The Telegraph

Since the shutters came down on the world, Eddie Jones has been sheltering with his wife Hiroko’s family in Tokyo, trying and sometimes failing to adjust to the emptiness of a life without coaching. “Some days I think, ‘Can I do this any longer?’ Other days, I see a bit of light and think, ‘Right, we’re not too far away …

4 years, 9 months ago

Watching football with: Eddie Jones, the England rugby union head coach

New York Times

Spinning in behind the static Arsenal defence, Neal Maupay deftly clips the ball beyond Emiliano Martinez and into the empty net. “That’s one of the reasons you coach — because you want to see players improve,” he says. “We get four or five senior players in first, so with the assistant coaches, we’ll have a chat to them, get their …

4 years, 11 months ago

Eddie Jones' to-do list: find a scrum half, bring back Joe Marler — and revive the Saxons

The Telegraph

Contract confirmed, doubts disposed with, Eddie Jones is no longer planning for the short-term. Jones admitted in his recent book that Marler should have started the Rugby World Cup final and he remains a quality prop both at the set piece and around the park. If Marler decides that he has another Rugby World Cup cycle in him, not forgetting …

5 years, 1 month ago

All the noise about the future of England head coach Eddie Jones is hurting the team

Daily Mail

One thing that's inevitable when you're in the England camp is the outside noise. Every time there's a bad performance, people will say, 'It's because Eddie might be leaving next year, blah, blah, blah'. Eddie Jones, who guided England to the World Cup final last year, has a deal until August 2021 It's impossible for the players not to hear …

5 years, 1 month ago

MARTIN SAMUEL: Eddie Jones has no plan, just soundbites, as England lack France's vision

Daily Mail

The World Cup, Eddie Jones, never tired of telling us, is a four-year cycle. England's Six Nations bid got off to the worst possible start against France on Sunday Except the only team that went 22 points clear on Sunday was France — 24 ahead, actually, following captain Charles Ollivon’s second converted try on 55 minutes. This was altogether more …

5 years, 2 months ago

Eddie Jones says England have 'a massive opportunity' to grow closer amid Saracens scandal

Daily Mail

Eddie Jones believes the Saracens scandal could be ‘a massive opportunity’ for the England squad to get tighter as they gear up for the imminent Guinness Six Nations – citing that being in the national setup could be the ‘best thing’ for those players affected by it. Eddie Jones hopes the Saracens scandal can bring his England squad closer together …

5 years, 4 months ago

Rugby World Cup 2019: Eddie Jones remains tightlipped on future after England's runners-up finish

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Pressed on the situation in a post-match news conference after the World Cup final defeat to South Africa, England coach Eddie Jones again remained tight-lipped Tokyo: Eddie Jones has unfinished business at the Rugby World Cup. His pledge, after being hired as the country’s first overseas-born rugby coach in November 2015, was to make England “the best team in the …

5 years, 4 months ago

CHRIS FOY: Eddie Jones has made a powerful statement by naming unchanged XV

Daily Mail

An unchanged team is not just a sign of precious stability and physical resilience at this stage of a World Cup, it is a statement of conviction. England will field the same starting XV in the World Cup final against South Africa as they did in the semi-final against New Zealand last week. Eddie Jones has kept faith in fly-half …

5 years, 5 months ago

Jones is relishing 14-day break between matches - but will England be undercooked?

Daily Mail

Eddie Jones sees England's 14-day break between matches at the Rugby World Cup as a positive, but does his side risk being under-prepared by the time they walk out for their quarter-final clash on October 19? Eddie Jones walks in to face the media after England's match against France was called off Head coach Jones is taking England's enforced 14-day …

5 years, 5 months ago

RUGBY WORLD CUP: Eddie Jones says England's pack are ready for a forwards battle

Daily Mail

Eddie Jones has declared that England are ready to unleash a brutal onslaught in today’s clash with Argentina, which he believes will be a ‘test of manhood’. The national coach was in a bullish mood on the eve of his team’s third World Cup Pool C fixture – their first against a Tier 1 nation. England head coach Eddie Jones …

5 years, 6 months ago

England coach Eddie Jones warns back-up boys not to do their own thing against US Eagles

Daily Mail

England's players will be warned to stick to the script against the USA on Thursday and avoid using the low-risk fixture to pursue personal selection agendas ahead of bigger games to come. Eddie Jones has told England's back-up boys they cannot undermine the collective objective How England will line-up against the USA 'That's the danger for us,' said the head …

6 years, 4 months ago

England vs Japan team announcement: Eddie Jones builds on promise to ‘smash’ his former side

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6 years, 4 months ago

Eddie Jones’ patched-up side offers a glimpse into England’s future

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6 years, 6 months ago

After years of searching, Eddie Jones and England finally have several solutions to their back row conundrum

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7 years, 4 months ago

England 'blessed' with generous 2019 Rugby World Cup schedule as Eddie Jones offers thoughts on Marland Yarde

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7 years, 10 months ago

Eddie Jones in stern defence of selecting foreign-born players for England after voicing surprise at Willi Heinz 'hoo-ha'

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8 years, 1 month ago

Eddie Jones wants England to take a lesson from history

Daily Mail

England's players have been placed on a war footing ahead of Saturday's RBS 6 Nations opener with France after orders to heed the warnings of centuries of Anglo-French conflict. According to Gustard's research, there have been 20 and head coach Eddie Jones declared the 21st will be enacted at Twickenham. 'It's always a historic game — there is history between …

8 years, 1 month ago

England head coach Eddie Jones: 'I'm like Donald Trump'

Daily Mail

Eddie Jones is mid-flow; he is explaining the metamorphosis that no one quite understands. Eddie Jones says he has turned the England team into winners by changing the mentality In order to do so Jones says he has used a repetitive mantra much like President Donald Trump Mail on Sunday sports editor Alison Kervin talks to Jones at the Pennyhill …

8 years, 2 months ago

Eddie Jones says Itoje is not ready to be England captain

Daily Mail

Eddie Jones is uneasy about the hype around Maro Itoje and poured scorn on calls for the Saracens sensation to be handed the England captaincy - despite an urgent search for the next generation of Test leaders. Eddie Jones is uneasy about the hype around Maro Itoje to be the next England captain 34-year-old Dylan Hartley is destined to continue …

8 years, 3 months ago

Eddie Jones makes England aces believe they are ready for the world after memorable 2016 campaign

Daily Mail

This all-conquering England side could go through 2017 unbeaten as well Eddie Jones considered the question. It will be 2018 before England are scheduled to face the All Blacks, meaning Jones’s team could go unbeaten through 2017 too, and without facing a nation above them in the rankings. And if you’re not in that group, or aspiring to be in …

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