Eddie Jones’ roller-coaster journey as England coach got here to an finish on Tuesday when he was sacked by the Rugby Soccer Union following a assessment into their November collection that ended with the staff being booed off the pitch at Twickenham.
That uncommon supporter response to a complete 27-13 defeat by a weakened South Africa – and Jones’s subsequent remark that he didn’t care what anyone else thought – seems to have been the ultimate straw for the nameless panel that sat to assessment the assessments, that additionally included defeat by Argentina, a draw towards New Zealand and victory over Japan.
“Following a assessment of the Autumn Nations Collection, Eddie Jones has been dismissed from the place of England Head Coach,” the RFU stated in an announcement.
“The RFU will now conclude the long-term work it has been enterprise on coach succession planning with modifications set to be introduced within the close to future. Within the interim, Richard Cockerill will take over the everyday working of the boys’s efficiency staff.”
England received solely 5 of their 12 video games in 2022 after a second-successive Six Nations the place they misplaced three of their 5 video games.
But Jones, 62, who led Australia to the 2003 World Cup last and Japan to their shock victory over South Africa in 2015, continued to insist they have been heading in the right direction for subsequent 12 months’s international event, his primary, and seemingly solely, precedence.
Jones, who took over after England’s group-stage exit from the 2015 event they hosted, had a contract till the tip of subsequent 12 months’s World Cup in France.
Regardless of the persevering with struggles on the pitch, the Australian insisted that when he acquired his squad collectively for a three-month coaching camp subsequent summer time, then they might reveal a complete new attacking construction and emerge as critical contenders to raise the Webb Ellis Cup for a second time.