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Body language expert makes bold claim after Jones questioned on Japan interview
By Josh Raisey
Eddie Jones’ reported meeting with Japan prior to the World Cup was always going to be much-discussed and the inspiration for a line of inquiry in the wake of Australia’s 40-6 humbling at the hands of Wales on Sunday, effectively ending their hopes of making it out of the pool stages a week after a loss to Fiji.
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So that proved to be the case, as the head coach was peppered with questions regarding this reported interview after the match. Jones swatted the questions away without giving a definitive answer as to whether he had this interview or not.
However, body language expert Darren Stanton saw all he needed to see post match to reach his own conclusion. The man dubbed the ‘human lie detector’ claims Jones did in fact have an interview with Japan from what he has seen from the Australian’s responses.
Before being used by the likes of the BBC and ITV to analyse high profile events, Darren “spent his days investigating and dealing with liars, cheats and criminals as a Police Officer,” according to his website. He has used his skills to examine Jones’ body language, and explained why he reached the conclusion he has reached.
“It appears to me that Eddie Jones is not being honest in his press conference and I do believe that he has had an interview with Japan,” Stanton told Genting Casino recently.
“There’s a hesitancy when he’s first asked the question about Japan, he takes a small half-breath and then his blink rate goes bizarre. A blink rate is linked to a shift in emotion and we change our emotions significantly when we lie. This tells me that he has had an interview with Japan.
“His eyebrows are up and his eyes are wide, which is a sign of fear. He’s afraid he’s been rumbled and that his deception has not been bought. He shakes his head when he answers in the affirmative, which is contradictory and the language he uses is ‘lying by admission’, which means he’s skirting over it and essentially saying ‘no comment’.
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“There’s about three or four red flags throughout his answers. If he hadn’t had engaged in an interview with Japan, then it would be like an instant ‘no, I haven’t’, or something clear like that, but he’s very deflective and resorts to ‘parroting’. ‘Parroting’ is where you repeat a series of short statements or you mirror language used by an interrogator as you don’t have the time to think of a plausible response so you resort to this kind of language in an attempt to hide the truth.”
Stanton also assessed Wallabies captain Dave Porecki’s response to whether the reports had unsettled the squad prior to the crunch match against Warren Gatland’s side.
He said: “When Dave Porecki has his say on Australia’s peformance, he says ‘it’s got nothing to do with the outside nouse, it’s just got to do with our performance and we just weren’t good enough’. When he says ‘it’s got nothing to do with the outside noise’, he bites his lip a lot which tells me he’s lying because we bite our lip when we feel guilty about telling a lie and he knows that he and his coach are not telling the truth.
“He knows that the morale is really bad, at an all time low, and that is perhaps because Jones is looking to jump ship.”
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Here are the clips of Jones:
Is Jamie Joseph suddenly leaving Japan?? I haven't heard that - has anyone else?? Besides which they would be nuts to ditch Joseph for Jones!
You don't need to be a human life detector. You can just assume what's coming out of Eddie's mouth is bullshit.
wouldnt trust what eddie says after all he only normally stays in one country to coach a world cup before moving on again
I wouldn't be surprised if he was talking to the JRU - look what he did to the Stormers in Cape Town. After he signed a binding contract and made all sorts of promises he ditched them like a hot potato to take the England job. Eddie isn't a man of his word and the only important person in his life is Eddie.
Maybe Rugbypass can give this guy a job for the duration of the tournament. He can analyse all the coaches and "pundits" for us. Man, that will be fun. And more important, they can replace him with that Ben Smith character's teenage opinions.
If he did have a discussion with the Japanese RFU or a Japanese club as is speculated then it would appear that he had no faith in the Wallabies progressing past the first round . What other reason could there be. Personally I think it would have been a bloody stupid thing to do as it’s bound to come out at some stage in the future . He did pick a bunch of younger players which would suggest he’s in it for the long haul and as the OZ RFU gave him a supposed four year contract I think they are joined at the hips . Unless of course there was a get out clause for both parties dependant on the RWC results.