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If Baxter was to get involved it would prob be in a part time role on summer tours.
Baxter will not leave Exeter for a while.
Baxter will not leave Exeter for a while.
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If true, this is another handicap that the RFU have placed on Jones and, worse, he has accepted! Again I say, if true!!
How much does he need the job and the attendant money??
He was in such a powerful negotiation position - as there was simply no real other contenders and Ritchie had to get him to stem calls for his own head - you would have thought he could get all his own way rather than having to potentially suck up two handicaps!!
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Doubt it is true just typical media going on and on about bringing in a AP Head coach or Director of Rugby as second in command.
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Not sure it's been said here yet, but Eddie already said he's going to try and bring Borthwick with him.
Whats going to change? Not much other than better team selections hes already bent the knee on things hes said in the past for the rfu can gaurentee central contracts the thing he said were essential wont happen as in the interview when asked he just babbled about close relationships with the clubs
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I think I have posted enough to show that I would agree with this wholeheartedly!
I think he is an ok coach but that is about it.
My point is after his several about turns (to secure the pay day) who would and how can he be trusted on anything he says?
Imagine his saying to Cips, as an example, that he sees him as the front runner, can Cips really believe and rely on him or would he, bearing in mind Jones's recent history, just treat him as a bull•••?
Surely his players have to have trust and belief in their coach?
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Why on earth would they not trust him ? I think you are calling on crap that no adult would take seriously anyway .....
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Ennit,
Tony clearly doesn't like Eddie Jones (/England?).
We can chalk up anything he says on the matter to that, really.
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Actually, I am ambivalent!
He was probably the best of what was available but It appears to me he has gone back an awful lot of things he has said in order to get the job when he did not have to.
I think that that is a sign of serious weakness when England need strength! I also do not rate one major victory in some 8 years as a really quality CV.
Like in most things, his record from now on will show how he does but I do not see him as the savior of English international rugby.
I am more than happy if he proves me wrong as international rugby needs a much better and more competitive English (and French) rugby nation!
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Central contracts essential - "we will have to work closely with the clubs"
Overseas players should be playing - "no change to rules about overseas players"
Whilst not a change, why is a Japanese/Australian going to sing the English national anthem? That is like Hamilton singing Uber Alles because he drives a German car!!!
As is my wont, I have my opinion and other people have theirs! Neither is going to change the other(s) so will now just leave events to pan out.........
Good luck to Jones - squash my doubts!!
Can see Tony's point tbh - he has changed his tune a fair deal. And, aye, I doubt the RFU would have given him what he wants - at which point one idly wonders what else the RFU might get their way on in the future. I think the levels of mistrust are overstated and don't think we were getting anyone who wasn't going to go with the RFU here - but there's a definite change from his comments to the press.
How exactly are the RFU going to guarantee Central Contracts to Jones? The PRL have already stated that they will not play centrally contracted players (from the RFU or any other Nation). They'll have told him that the EPS agreement is discussed very soon, and he can bash his head as much as he likes with their support then. The RFU already has control over rest and extra release of players with the EPS agreement, it's also far more flexible than a central contract would be with regards to a player no longer being wanted (or getting long term injury, better Leicester paying for Tuilagi than England).
Overseas, again, not something the RFU can guarantee him a reverse in position of, but again, something he can try and amend the EPS for.
He was stirring, selling clicks, exactly what a newspaper pundit should do.
As for the Anthem, you are aware that the queen is the queen of Aus too? And Jones himself said that when he was at school he sung the anthem every morning. It's not the English national anthem anyway, it's the British national anthem (England doesn't have one), and as part of the commonwealth, and a subject of the queen (however archaic you may or may not believe that to be), there's nothing out of place for Jones to be singing God Save the Queen.
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People change their minds on stuff, it happens.
I've read a good point on central contracts recently.
England players get £15k match appearances fees. ~10 games a year is around £150k. There are also bonuses if the team do well, and I presume some kind of payment for being in the EPS. Also, for the EPS agreement, the RFU is giving PRL clubs £102m over the next 8 years, along with some of the money earned for the 4th Autumn International.
In return:
So basically, players have a massive monetary incentive for playing for England. Clubs get compensation for it. In return, England get to deliver support on "elite player management programmes" (i.e. they get to determine how the clubs train their internationals, presumably allowing positional changes), and a medical protocol to keep players in the best physical condition (i.e. resting). It's effectively central contracts by a different means.
Arguably it's better for England though. We don't need to be bound to players for years like you would with central contracts; we can change players at every EPS. It also works on an incentive system - you have to work for your international money. Whereas central contracts would just be hand-outs. You hope that an incentive system would push players harder.
I've read a good point on central contracts recently.
England players get £15k match appearances fees. ~10 games a year is around £150k. There are also bonuses if the team do well, and I presume some kind of payment for being in the EPS. Also, for the EPS agreement, the RFU is giving PRL clubs £102m over the next 8 years, along with some of the money earned for the 4th Autumn International.
In return:
So basically, players have a massive monetary incentive for playing for England. Clubs get compensation for it. In return, England get to deliver support on "elite player management programmes" (i.e. they get to determine how the clubs train their internationals, presumably allowing positional changes), and a medical protocol to keep players in the best physical condition (i.e. resting). It's effectively central contracts by a different means.
Arguably it's better for England though. We don't need to be bound to players for years like you would with central contracts; we can change players at every EPS. It also works on an incentive system - you have to work for your international money. Whereas central contracts would just be hand-outs. You hope that an incentive system would push players harder.
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I doubt you can hold someone to something they wrote as a columnist with the intention to stir the pot.
Things are different looking from inside rather than the outside.
Things are different looking from inside rather than the outside.
I really do not buy the suggestion that Jones was saying all of that for giggles/has genuinely totally changed his mind. Seems far more likely he was told "Won't happen, do you want the job or not" and went "Ok, yeah, we'll do it your way."
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Coach takes the company line after joining the company. Hardly a shocker.
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Jones also specifically said he thought Armitage should have been picked under the "exceptional circumstances" rule during the world cup - not generally.
That was also the time where he said:
Judging by that, can we assume that he's going to want at least two players who can (genuinely) compete on the floor in his back row?
That was also the time where he said:
Judging by that, can we assume that he's going to want at least two players who can (genuinely) compete on the floor in his back row?
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Robshaw and Wood must be bricking it
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