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Next year's World Cup won't be Eddie Jones' last tournament as coach

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Eddie Jones is determined for his long-standing association with the World Cup to continue beyond the conclusion of his England coaching tenure next autumn.

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The Australian will step down after eight years in charge once France 2023 is complete and he could return to his homeland with his name having been linked with a director of rugby role with the Wallabies.

But whatever his destination, the 62-year-old does not see his fifth World Cup as a coach being his last despite previously declaring that he would retire to Barbados to watch cricket when his time with England was over.

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“No. Definitely not. It won’t be. I can’t guarantee you that, but I don’t think it will be,” said Jones, who has led England and Australia to World Cup finals in 2003 and 2019 and also won the competition in 2007 as an assistant coach with South Africa.

“I reckon there’s still a bit to do. There’s still a bit in the tank. I rang up the boss of the Barbados IPL and he’s not interested…”

England begin the countdown to the World Cup this autumn when they face Argentina, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa at Twickenham.

Once the Six Nations is complete they will play four warm-up games and the challenge facing Jones is to propel the team forwards while not revealing the details of their masterplan for the tournament.

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“The one thing you want to be doing from here to the World Cup – and every coach will say the same – is improving,” he said.

“You don’t want to be static and you don’t want to show everything. If you show everything then teams come up with plans to stop you doing that.

“We want to win every Test in November but we don’t want to be showing any tactical developments that maybe we’ll want to use in the World Cup.

“You don’t want to show it in the warm-up games. You want to be able to do it on the training paddock consistently then be able to do it bang at the World Cup.”

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takata 1 hour ago
Can Les Bleus avoid a Black-wash in New Zealand?

but I do not accept that international rugby and who plays France in France doesn’t matter not a big deal we will just get somebody else who cares ?


I’m sorry, my bad, it doesn’t sound right when read under this angle


This part of my post you are refering to was certainly poorly worded as I wasn’t weighting an AB test playing in France (or not) vs the huge audience and media attention it gets all the time, or not, if not played.


By “not a big deal”, I mostly meant financially for FFR as, contrary to many other Rugby Unions (most as broke as FFR) who are still making nearly all their money with such big events tickets sale, FFR is not. Using the Stade de France* even when it was sold out or near full capacity (something garanteed for an AB game) was only for the operator to turn on profits. Hence they would survive an AB boycott because not as much was at stake compared to other Unions who are still desperately chasing the biggest crowds as possible in order to survive.


Also, I don’t think that the NZRU could push other Unions to boycott France over sending a development team on summer tours, like say when South Africa was boycotted over apartheid. So, the FFR would also survive that (with less audience but less drama).


Because WR can’t help without juridiction on team selection, France is simply fulfilling their engagement by sending whatever team they want. By the way, that’s why WR is trying to sell a “Nation League?” instead of tours, in order to up what’s at stakes but it probably won’t change anything for the French selection in July.


(*) conditions were reviewed and improved, as FFR was going to reconsider playing in the Stade de France at all.


you would expect the first game since Bok world champs knocked the French boys out at the WC surely would be more than that? that’s how I would market it anyhow !! Revenge game ! And that will be a major rugby event even tho u don’t think so

When you are overstretched and can’t do everything with the means at your disposal, the best way is to rank those tasks and assign your best forces following priorities:

- WC knock out game

- 6 Nations Chelem or decider game

- WC pool game

- (…)

- November International

- July International


Looks like what Galthié is doing is also matching priorities for the French public manipulated by the media coverage.


But the domestic record audience was for a WC knock out game which wasn’t vs. RSA in 2023. Why would an old game vs England score above 20 million and a pool game vs New Zealand with low drama would nearly score as much as this knock out quarter final.


I don’t know but maybe it’s because England are the French arch-enemies, ABs’ are the most renowned team and RSA is simply not there yet. We’ll see and I certainly can be wrong in my pronostic and 15 million will turn up for this game.

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