{"id":295648,"date":"2023-10-30T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T11:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=295648"},"modified":"2023-10-30T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T11:24:14","slug":"is-this-man-to-blame-for-the-eddie-jones-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/rugby-union\/is-this-man-to-blame-for-the-eddie-jones-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this man to blame for the Eddie Jones disaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Former Wallabies coach Alan Jones pinpoints who HAS TO be sacked over the Eddie Jones disaster: &#8216;He has no knowledge of the game&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alan Jones has called for Hamish McLennan to quit Rugby Australia\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>McLennan appointed Eddie Jones, who resigned on Sunday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Former Wallabies coach Alan Jones wants a major overhaul\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Latest Rugby World Cup 2023 news, including fixtures, live scores and results<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alan Jones has called for Hamish McLennan to leave Rugby Australia in a withering review of the Wallabies&#8217; plight following the Eddie Jones disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old likened coaching Australia to &#8216;eating s***&#8217; as he quit his role as head coach just 10 months after taking on the job following the team&#8217;s horrendous Rugby World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The failed Jones experiment has put the Wallabies &#8216;back to square one&#8217; according to Mail Sport columnist Sir Clive Woodward, the England legend hugely critical of the board&#8217;s decision to sack Dave Rennie in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>And now previous Wallabies coach Alan Jones has echoed those sentiments, claiming the blame for the debacle lies firmly at McLennan&#8217;s door.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Facebook after Jones&#8217;s announcement, he said:\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;So Eddie Jones is gone, thrown under the bus by the person who, without doing any homework, made a &#8216;Captain&#8217;s Pick&#8217; to choose Jones in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/10\/77169071-12687937-image-a-2_1698660993226.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Former Wallabies coach Alan Jones has hit Rugby Australia with a withering criticism<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/10\/77169073-12687937-image-a-3_1698660995498.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Australian rugby is in disarray after Eddie Jones quit the national team on Sunday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/10\/77169399-12687937-image-a-1_1698661907476.jpg\" height=\"798\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That person is McLennan, the Chairman of Rugby Australia, who should be the first to go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I, almost alone, because it was unfashionable, warned that this would happen.\u00a0 McLennan is the architect of all of this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Coaching Australia is a prestigious job. It was never advertised.\u00a0McLennan has no knowledge of the game and no previous involvement in the game.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added that Eddie Jones&#8217;s exit presents an opportunity for rugby bosses to completely start again and called for knowledgeable figures to take over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;McLennan has to go,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Then, the job of coaching Australia should be advertised and a panel with coaching knowledge should be appointed to review the applicants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What the rugby family don&#8217;t know is that the Board of Rugby Australia is almost devoid of rugby knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/30\/10\/77169085-12687937-image-a-4_1698661011831.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Alan Jones insists that the blame for the disaster lies solely at Hamish McLennan&#8217;s door<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;McLennan is doing as he likes. We have now seen what that has produced. We don&#8217;t have a &#8216;player&#8217; problem, we have a massive administrative mess.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Jones is out the door. He should be followed by McLennan and the bulk of the Board.\u00a0They own this problem. They signed off on the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Jones is merely the symptom. The rugby disease is right at the top.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>McLennan has insisted he will not quit despite the mounting pressure on his shoulders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12687937\/Former-Wallabies-coach-Alan-Jones-pinpoints-sacked-Eddie-Jones-disaster-no-knowledge-game.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Wallabies coach Alan Jones pinpoints who HAS TO be sacked over the Eddie Jones disaster: &#8216;He has no knowledge of the game&#8217; Alan Jones has called for Hamish McLennan to quit Rugby Australia\u00a0 McLennan appointed Eddie Jones, who resigned on Sunday\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is this man to blame for the Eddie Jones disaster? 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