Matt Williams: England’s shoddy treatment of Jones may well come back to haunt them

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Matt Williams: England's dismissal of Eddie Jones a massive mistake

Eddie won a Super Rugby competition with the Brumbies, reached two World Cup finals as a head coach in 2003 and 2019, and won the tournament as an assistant coach with South Africa in 2007. This record demands respect from us all.

The sporting virus of short-term thinking started in English soccer and has now cross infected almost every English sport. Any series of defeats or poor form automatically turn the crosshairs on the team’s leadership, who are almost immediately confronted with possible dismissal. Eddie Jones is perhaps the best coach in the world at understanding the complexities and fine margins in getting a four-year World Cup cycle as close to correct as humanly possible. Helping lead Australia, South Africa, Japan and England, Jones has coached World Cup excellence across two decades.

While South Africa were far too good in the final and deserved their victory, Jones understands better than anyone on the planet that success for the 2023 World Cup needed a new plan, new staff, new players and a new way of playing. All processes that take time to produce. Eddie Jones is a serial winner. He is driven to succeed like no one else I have ever met in rugby. That drive and determination to do whatever it takes does place a strain on key relationships within the teams he coaches.

 

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