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Report: Eddie Jones expected to quit Wallabies job

Eddie Jones, Head Coach of Australia, speaks to the media prior to the Rugby World Cup France 2023 match between Australia and Portugal at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard on October 01, 2023 in Saint-Etienne, France. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

Wallabies head coach Eddie Jones is expected to quit as the Wallabies head coach in order to become Japan’s next head coach according to a report from The Telegraph.

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The UK paper has followed reports from Japan that stated contract negotiations were underway during the Wallabies failed Rugby World Cup campaign which saw them exit at the pool stage for the first time ever.

Jones came under widespread criticism after a report leaked that he was taking Zoom interviews with Japan during the campaign.

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Those appear now to be a very real concern for Rugby Australia with Japanese media reporting that Jones is set to take over from departing head coach Jamie Joseph.

“Current Australian national team coach Eddie Jones is expected to return as the successor to Joseph,” Japanese website Sponichi claimed.

“This spring, Masato Tsuchida, president of the Japan Association, with whom he has had a honeymoon relationship since his days at Suntory, contacted him.

“Contract negotiations have been held privately behind the scenes, and preparations are underway for (his) return (for the first time) since the 2015 World Cup, which led them to a historic three wins.”

The Telegraph reported that Jones was expected to meet JRFU officials in early November for a second interview but that has coincided with coaching commitments with the Barbarians.

With Jones’ long-term links to Japanese rugby, he remains an ideal candidate despite being contracted to Rugby Australia through to 2027.

Jones and Rugby Australia officials have continued to deny that he is leaving and have stated that they remain committed to Jones’ Wallabies tenure.

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If the Wallabies head coach does quit it would be a sensational shock departure after inking a long-term deal to oversee the Wallabies through two World Cups and a British & Irish Lions tour.

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Nickers 531 days ago

Eddie is free to go where he wants to go.

Australian Rugby on the other hand have a lot to answer for. If he leaves it will be the ultimate embarrassment for them.

If true, Eddie used them to pad his pockets while he’s out of a job for a few months. Fair play to him.

Either way Australian Rugby really need to sharpen up.

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Mitch 531 days ago

Good Riddance, Eddie, if this turns out to be true.

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Flankly 531 days ago

It’s one thing to take a call in case you get fired, but quite a different thing to actively pursue a new opportunity when your current employers are depending on you to deliver what you said you would.

Stormers fans will remember 2016, when Eddie took the job as head coach of the team, and then took the England job before the Stormers season even started. Everyone understands the attraction of the England role, and no doubt there was a clause in his Stormers agreement to allow it. Also, it is better for him to leave before he even started than a few months later. But it does tell you that he is an opportunist.

Right now Eddie should finish the Australia job if he is asked to do it, and it would be shocking for him to head off to Japan. But if he is asked to move on then I would not begrudge him having a Plan B in his back pocket.

This is not the time for career opportunism. It is the time for ramping up a 4-year plan that delivers a top four WR ranking, and at least an RWC semi-final for Australia on home soil. And if he's speaking to Japan he should be telling them that he's only available if he is asked to leave the Wallabies.

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johnz 531 days ago

Don’t worry folks, its all going to work out for Aus. Fozzie needs a new job soon. Perfect timing.

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Guy 531 days ago

Finally, good news! Our Australian friends will be able to seriously prepare 2027...

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Chris 532 days ago

Well there you have it, the man has no honour or honesty. Said it from the beginning, he’d sell his own mother for a paycheque

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Red and White Dynamight 532 days ago

Whoever fired Rennie and hired Eddie should be the first out the door.

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David 532 days ago

It is what it is. Whatever he does will be for the best of all concerned.

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john 532 days ago

Good riddance. He stabbed the Wallabies in the back by trying to slip in a couple of his hopeless Tah pets Porecki and Donaldson and it backfired on him. Too bad, too sad Eddie. You dug your own grave.

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strachan 532 days ago

Charlatan. This appears to be true then. He said I'm committed to Australia rugby in interview and never gave the key answer if he will be their to coach in 2024. What sort of manager has this type of integrity l. NO mate..you must have respect for yourself and the game…

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JWH 6 hours ago
'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Do you hear yourself? Do you have any concept of world view? Have you tried looking into why people call Ireland ‘arrogant’? Obviously not.


We started calling you arrogant when you called our captain a ‘shit Richie McCaw’. In New Zealand. On our turf. Don’t think that kind of behaviour really calls for respect, does it.


NZ don’t really talk ourselves up, if anything the rugby does it for us. No kiwi goes in the media and says: ‘We are gonna win the RWC’. However, I have found many instance of IRISH media saying that the Irish should win, without a doubt. THAT is disrespectful.


The All Blacks have played good rugby, even some of the best rugby ever, at many points in history, but I don’t think you could find a single instance of one of those players, or the NZ media, saying that they should whitewash their opponents. Ever.


Now, onto your analysis. Ireland DID choke the QF. They beat the champions, they were ranked first coming into it, a lot of players at the peaks of their powers. Its hard to say that they didn’t choke. Obviously, their preparation was just not as good as NZ, and thats all there really is to it.


If Ireland had repsected that ABs team and that QF more, maybe they would’ve prepared properly for it and won. But they didn’t.


Maybe if Ireland had won their QF last RWC, they wouldn’t have to be in the same pool as SA and Scotland. I mean, its called a draw for a reason. NZ got third last RWC, so of course they should get a reasonable pool, and they were ranked pretty highly too. If you want to talk about easy pools, look no further than Pool 3 with England, Australia, Fiji, and Georgia I think?


Now, obviously you don’t remember how that QF ended, so I’ll go ahead and rectify that. Ireland reclaimed the ball off kickoff and marched for 20ish phases into the opposition half. Savea then won a turnover, but the referee refused to give it, so play went on. Finally, at the NZ 22, after not giving up a single penatly in 25 phases of hard defense, Sam Whitelock, the most capped All Black of all time, wins the game with an incredible steal.


Now, NZ players having a go at Ireland. Do you cry when you get hit after making the first swing? We all know Sexton is a prick on the field, its just the truth. And Ioane never backs down from a clash, so he thought he should humble a player who has never won an international knockout game who thought he was all that. Don’t really see the issue, its poetic justice really.

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