![]() ![]() "And some of these journalists when they are recommending people to take over, they aren't in the same league as Eddie Jones. Haskell says Jones is the best coach he ever worked under, and cannot understand the decision to sack him He understood how to get the best out of the players, created a competitive and professional environment. Eddie Jones is by far and away the best coach I've ever worked with. ![]() "I had five international coaches with England, and they were some of the worst environments I've ever been part of. ![]() Eddie is there to put the best players on the field. "Talk about the players not being confident, the players losing their shine, players coming in and out of the squad. "Then you have ex-coaches, who have agendas and vendettas, who are able to use their media platform to put things out there. "What some of these older journalists are doing, who don't like Eddie, is they don't come and watch training, they don't speak to any of the current players, they're not particularly popular with the players because of their opinions, because they are there to sell newspapers. "The Six Nations was disappointing, the autumn internationals were disappointing, but not to the degree that there were catastrophic errors. That's how close it is.ΔΆ003 Rugby World Cup winner Will Greenwood dissects the decision to sack Jones as England head coach and looks at the options out there to become his possible successor "And that can come down to a malfunctioning set-piece at scrum or lineout, some clever individual brilliance, or an individual error. "You obviously get some anomalies, like Wales vs New Zealand recently, 55-23, but the majority of games are won or lost by a few points. I think the landscape of international rugby has changed, and the margins of victory are so small now. "Which is pretty much the story of the modern world: If you shout loud enough, and have enough fans in the media, you can achieve anything. So you're going to put someone else in charge for the Six Nations who hasn't been an international coach, just because of some grumpy old journalists, and miserable fans, who decided to gang up to get rid of him. "And then the best thing is, the person they want to replace him with at this point in time, and obviously it's an ever-movable feast, is not available. Sky Sports reporter James Cole looks back at Jones' seven years as England head coach after he was sacked by the RFU following a disappointing autumn ![]()
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