By Lucky Maree
When Lucky wondered last week whether Eddie Jones would survive the defeat against the Springboks, it was just speculation. By Monday morning the international media came just short of proclaiming him dead and buried.
Writing in the Daily Mail, former England full-back Mike Brown was adamant that England “needed a new voice”.
“He’s run out of excuses,” said Brown.
Mail Online said: Eddie Jones is expected to be sacked as England Rugby coach early next week and are already proclaiming Warren Gatland and Steve Borthwick as the favourites to take over.
Clive Woodward, one of the fiercest critics of Jones is suddenly sorry for him.
“I feel sorry for Jones because nobody is qualified to sack him,” he said in his Mail Online column.
“Right now, I don’t think anyone who is passionate about English rugby could say it would be a catastrophe if Eddie Jones left the RFU. That says everything.”
Woodward is himself a candidate for the job.
Georgina Robinson in the Sydney Morning Herald states it as fact: Eddie Jones will split with the England Rugby Football Union on Monday, his seven-year reign as England coach over just nine months before the World Cup in France.
We’ll know soon. Sometime during the morning the rugby world will know if the smiling garden gnome will be off the World Cup landscape – and we’ll know during the week if others will follow.
Pictured above: The smiling Eddie Jones
Image source: Sydney Morning Herald
