My response is categorically yes, we always have very good players. The first question is, can the Wallabies win the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France. Many Wallabies’ supporters will remember a time when we legitimately expected our team to win the William Webb Ellis Cup.Īt sport lunches and charity functions all around the country I am asked questions about our World Cup campaign. Sadly, most of us would settle for a semi-final appearance in France, which says a lot about where our game is right now. Of course, as the nation gets ready to ride another World Cup rollercoaster, we are all hoping the Wallabies can inspire us with a Matildas-like performance. One wonders what Eddie Jones has been appointed to do.
When Eddie Jones was sacked from the England job he said his greatest mistake was the appointment of his assistant coaches, arguing his assistants are, “just so important because they are doing the bulk of the coaching”. The line out coach is a former scrum coach.
The maul coach, I understand, is a former scrum half. The defence coach has never coached a rugby union side before. The attack coach walked out on the eve of the team leaving for France. Subsequently, the same Eddie Jones was sacked by Saracens and, as we know, sacked at the end of last year by England.Īs I have also previously reported, though comprehensively ignored by those running the game, during Eddie Jones’ seven years at the helm of the English team, he churned through 18 coaches and 112 players.Įddie Jones talks to Ben Donaldson and Carter Gordon ahead of Australia’s opening match of the rugby World Cup. Things became so toxic in the changeroom that players rebelled and in the last game of the season, in 2007, Eddie Jones’ Queensland side was annihilated, 92-3 by the Bulls in South Africa. The last time Eddie Jones coached the Wallabies he was sacked after seven straight losses in 2005. Last Saturday week, Eddie Jones had access to the same players, he could have chosen many of them but didn’t, he didn’t even have a recognised goalkicker, and Australia was thrashed 41-17. On to France, 12 months ago, Dave Rennie’s men lost a nail biter in Paris, 30-29. The rugby “Messiah”, Jones, had access to the very same players 12 months on, and the Wallabies, a few weeks ago, were thrashed by the All Blacks, 38-7. Rugby fans will recall a scrum being awarded to the All Blacks for time wasting and, after several rucks, the All Blacks scored in the corner to win, after the bell, 39-37.
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Rennie didn’t have a retinue of 11 assistant coaches, reportedly, currently, in the Jones camp, including, as I understand it, a “learning coach”.Īlmost on full time, Australia was leading 37-34, until the French referee penalised Bernard Foley for running down the clock.
Twelve months ago, the now sacked Rennie, coached Australia against the All Blacks in Melbourne. The Chairman of Australian Rugby justified the recall of Eddie Jones by describing him as, “the best coach in the world”.Įddie Jones was re-hired as Wallabies coach after being sacked by England. In his last stint coaching England, he won four of his last 13 Tests. The reality is that Eddie Jones has won one Test out of his last 14, coaching Australia in 20. Most of the mainstream media swallowed all of this rhetoric until reality invaded, as it was bound to.
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When on Monday January 16, Rennie was sacked and replaced by Jones who had been sacked by England last December 6, McLennan labelled the securing of Jones’ services as a, “major coup”, arguing, “you wait till you get the Wallabies winning, we win the World Cup we win the British and Irish Lion Series we win the Bledisloe Cup, and all comes back”. Indeed, as I have said previously, it is a matter of public record that, while the Rugby Australia Chairman, Hamish McLennan, was assuring the incumbent, Dave Rennie, that he would be coaching the Wallabies up until the World Cup, behind Rennie’s back, McLennan, for months, was reportedly talking to Eddie Jones. The coveted job of coaching Australia was never advertised. There is no doubt that the current state of Australian rugby can be characterised as a clash between rhetoric and reality.
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