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<\/p>\nDanny Cipriani and Eddie Jones in South Africa in 2014<\/p>\n
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Danny Cipriani has accused former England head coach Eddie Jones of acting like a \u201chorny teenager\u201d in probing into his private life.<\/p>\n
The former fly half endured a sometimes difficult relationship with Jones, with Cipriani earning only a handful of caps under the Australian despite impressive club form.<\/p>\n
In his soon-to-be published autobiography, Who Am I?<\/em>, the 35-year-old opens up on his dealings with Jones, recalling one conversation after he had been picked for an early summer training camp in Bagshot shortly after being left out for the coach\u2019s first Six Nations campaign.<\/p>\n Cipriani had recently broken up with television presenter Kirsty Gallacher, and claims that Jones immediately quizzed him on the relationship.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s May 2016, and Eddie\u2019s picked me for a three-day training camp at Pennyhill Park,\u201d Cipriani said in his memoir, serialised in The Times<\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re all out for dinner on day one, I\u2019m sitting at the end of the table and Eddie comes and sits next to me. <\/p>\n \u201cThe first words out of his mouth are, \u2018Mate, doesn\u2019t Kirsty Gallacher live around here? Haven\u2019t you shagged her? What\u2019s she like?\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve just split up with Kirsty, after a short relationship, and it\u2019s not something I want to talk to my head coach about, or anyone else for that matter. Eddie keeps pecking, like a horny teenager, and in the end I tell him straight, \u201cEddie, I don\u2019t want to talk about this, it\u2019s making me uncomfortable.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Cipriani was a bit-part figure under Jones, whose seven year tenure in charge of England ended last December.<\/p>\n The playmaker, considered one of the brightest attacking talents of his generation, started only once for his country under the head coach, engineering a third test win in South Africa in 2018.<\/p>\n And Cipriani feels that Jones could have done more to try and understand his character.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter leaving me out of his squad for the 2016 autumn internationals, Eddie says I\u2019m only happy being No 1, the main man, insinuating I\u2019d be disruptive if I wasn\u2019t in the starting XV,\u201d Cipriani continues in his book.<\/p>\n \u201cOwen Farrell\u2019s injured, so is his Saracens understudy Alex Lozowski, who left Wasps after I signed, is picked ahead of me. Eddie has had two conversations with me, the first when he pulled apart my man-of-the-match display against France, the second when he wanted to know who I\u2019d been shagging. <\/p>\n \u201cIf he really got to know me, he\u2019d realise I\u2019d happily sit on the bench for England. I can only conclude that Eddie doesn\u2019t want to understand, that\u2019s it\u2019s more convenient and easier for him to judge me on my past.\u201d<\/p>\n Jones will coach Australia at the 2023 Rugby World Cup, which begins in Paris on Friday 8 September.<\/p>\nRecommended<\/h3>\n
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