Jones appointed England rugby coach

The Australian was headhunted by England, whose coach, Stuart Lancaster, resigned following their shock exit in the first round of the World cup.

It is just about getting them in the right line-up and getting the team performing to their strengths. “This is one of the biggest unions in the world”.

Finding a high quality open-side flanker wouldn’t go a miss either (England don’t have too many of them), but at least Jones no longer has to concern himself with what to do about Sam Burgess. He’s a great player but I think he’s playing out of position. “In terms of the coaching staff, they’ll start on December 1 and over that period of time I will assess the coaches that have been here”, he added.

“Wales, Ireland and Scotland – unlike England, Italy and France – all have centralised contracting systems”, said the former Japan coach, int he same interview three days ago.

But yesterday he said: ‘I was a newspaper columnist – I was being a bit naughty.

New England head coach Eddie Jones has claimed that he will not change the rule stating that English players can not be picked unless they play domestic rugby on home soil. “We want the All Blacks to be watching how England play; that would be nice wouldn’t it?” ‘Whenever you’ve got talent you’ve got a chance to create something special. From that point forwards the Japanese side delivered an unprecedented run of results causing them to be the first side in the competition’s history to win three pool matches but to not progress through to the knockout stages. ‘I see it as part of my job to develop England coaches to take over.

Eddie Jones commented: “When I was appointed at WP Rugby there was no vacancy within the RFU and I never envisaged this opportunity to come forward”. To me, that’s one of the reasons that led to Stuart Lancaster’s failure.

“I am direct when I need to be direct. I can be soft as well”.

“I can not help thinking if current England players had had that kind of exposure to southern hemisphere opponents they would have been in a far better place. Richie -McCaw sprints from one drill to the next in training, he cleans the dressing room after games, and those are the sort of guys you want”.

And he had made a pledge that by the World Cup in Japan, he will have a “couple” of the English coaches he intends to employ as his assistants “ready to take over as head coach”.

“I have already had contact from a few big-name coaches and I will, once again, look both internally and externally before continuing to plot the way ahead for Western Province Rugby and the Stormers”, Smal said on Friday (Saturday NZT).

“The whole idea about rugby is that you get people who play for your country, who come through the system and you want them to come through to the national job and pass on their experience”.

” All we’ve got to do is systematically over the four years be sure that we bring young players in, give them enough experience so that when they get to the World Cup in 2019 they’ve got the required amount of experience to be consistent performers”.