Crapsray, probably was going off of that article.
I don't really understand people lambasting Eddie already ? His squad was good . His 23 selection was more conservative than some of us wanted including me but I'll forget it if we beat Scotland on Saturday and the players have reacted well to him and his training sessions . He also regularly says the right things to the press . I'm really happy so far with what Eddie has done
Let's be honest we have come from Stuart Lancaster and Andy Farrell with Mouritz Botha and Phil Dowson to Eddie Jones and Paul Gustard and Maro Itoje and Jack Clifford ! What's not to be happy about
Because so far his selection, while mostly good, has included some genuine wtf inducing moments (Ashton, Hartley, Goode included in the 23)
And Itoje isn't in the 23, which might be reasonable, but certainly means he can't be included in the positives column just yet.
And Andy Farrell was a bad pick in the role he ended up for in England, but in a like for like comparison with Gustard, then Farrell's already picked up another two international defence jobs because of how generally good our defence was while Gustard's yet to prove himself a success in one.
And there's no guarantee that Eddie Jones will be a better England coach than Lancaster, although he is certainly getting better players to work with.
I don't want to play whack-a-mole with our new head coach. And I don't want to do it over his first 23 as I couldn't give three brass-plated f**ks really, the performance matters more than the selection and how he responds to that more than either. But I don't want to do a cheerleading act either. He's an unknown quantity and amid the good, there's some really super questionable.
I'll judge him on performances. I think most people will. But there's certainly room for criticism to date.
