<\/strong><\/p>\n Buy all of your Rugby World Cup 2023 programmes HERE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> Rugby World Cup fans ‘have water bottles confiscated for being the wrong brand’<\/strong><\/p>\n Australia boss Eddie Jones has been blanked by the country’s rugby chief, Hamish McLennan, since the Wallabies crashed out of the World Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n Jones oversaw a crushing 40-6 defeat to Wales, prompting fierce speculation over his future.<\/p>\n When asked whether he had addressed rumours linking Jones to the Japan manager’s job, McLennan said: “I haven’t spoken to Eddie directly. But Waughy did and we are taking his word and he said there is nothing in it.”<\/p>\n Andy Goode has publicly complained about former Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas forming part of ITV’s World Cup coverage.<\/p>\n Thomas agreed to pay \u00a375,000 to a former partner back in January after being accused of ‘deceptively’ giving him HIV.<\/p>\n The 49-year-old maintains his innocence and insists that the payment was ‘not an admission of liability or guilt’.<\/p>\n During ITV’s coverage, Goode wrote on X: “It’s actually immoral that Gareth Thomas is on our TV screens, imagine a straight man doing what he did, they wouldn’t get another TV gig ever.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/69\/590x\/secondary\/4978270.jpg?r=1695710935255\")
<\/p>\nEddie Jones ruthlessly blanked<\/h3>\n
Ex-England star wants pundit axed<\/h3>\n
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