Eddie Jones | "Saying Australia could win the World Cup was CRAZY"
Up Front
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eddie Jones is one of the most recognisable coaches on the international rugby stage. Having coached his native Australia, Japan and of course England, where he won multiple Six Nations titles and reached a World Cup final in 2019.
Known for his tough coaching methods, his controversial statements and his unwavering commitment to excellence, Eddie Jones is one of the game’s great characters.
He joined the show on Friday 27th October, two days before he announced his resignation from his position as Head Coach of Australia. This hour long conversation gives an insight into his state of mind ahead of that big decision...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of Upfront with me, Simon Jordan. Before we get started, I wanted to give you a few details about this recording with Eddie Jones. |
| 0:08.5 | At the point we conducted this interview, Eddie was still in post as Australian head coach. As you're here later on, I wanted to question him about the rumours suggesting he'd been interviewed for the Japan job, whilst coaching Australia at the World Cup. |
| 0:22.2 | Eddie subsequently resigned as Australia head coach a few days after recording with me, |
| 0:27.4 | and during this episode, you'll get a valuable insight into his mentality |
| 0:31.0 | about the conditions he was working in and draw your own conclusions |
| 0:35.1 | as to why he ended up making that decision to leave his role. |
| 0:38.9 | During the course of the interview, you will hear me relentlessly ask him, |
| 0:42.9 | are you going to be staying with Australia? |
| 0:45.2 | Also during the interview, you'll hear me accusing him of being a riddle wrapped up an enigma. |
| 0:50.3 | Someone that says they're staying and then leaves 24 hours is the ultimate riddle wrapped up an enigma. |
| 0:57.6 | I hope you enjoy this discussion as much as I enjoyed my time with Eddie. |
| 1:02.8 | Going to Australia to do a three-month campaign and saying you can win the World Cup is crazy. |
| 1:08.6 | And we're a long way behind and that's the challenge |
| 1:11.2 | for Rugby Australia. What's your hopes for Marcus Smith? He's reasonably good at the club level, |
| 1:17.7 | but they make him out to be a superstar. Yeah. Well, there's no offer from Japan. Let's, |
| 1:22.8 | let's be clear about me, there's no offer. And that's probably the weakness I've had, |
| 1:28.2 | but I never want to compromise like that. I always want them to play well. With two well-cut finals and two |
| 1:32.8 | losses, do you think you're a winner? It doesn't really matter what people think. It matters what |
| 1:39.4 | you think, you know, I am what I am. This is up front with me, Simon Jordan. I believe there are a lot of |
| 1:44.5 | vacuous, uninformed, unchallenged opinions out there. I want to get to the bottom line and cut |
| 1:49.1 | through the nonsense. So with this podcast with William Hill, I'm going to get people with strong |
| 1:53.1 | views who think they can stand them up to proper scrutiny. There's a good chance I might learn |
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