Eddie Jones appeared before the media in Tokyo this Thursday, the day after his appointment was formalized as coach of Japan, which he had already managed from 2012 to 2015. In a press conference, he talked about leaving Australia, which he hastily withdrew from in January, then resigned in November after a disastrous World Cup in which the Wallabies failed to get out of the group for the first time. Their history.
Eddie Jones, who has signed a contract with the Wallabies until the 2027 World Cup (at home), is set to leave ahead of the World Cup in France and has spoken to leaders at the end of the summer, according to multiple Australian media outlets. Japanese Federation. Eddie Jones denied conducting the first interview in December.
“If people think I lied, that’s their opinion. I can’t do anything about it. »
“I signed a five-year contract with the Australian federation. There were things that needed to be changed in the system and I signed this agreement with the Australian Federation on a multi-year plan to change the system. Eddie Jones explained. After a year, I realized that the federation would not live up to its commitments and that we would not fully develop certain skills, and I decided to move on. I feel bad about the results because I wanted to change things by coming back (He had already coached Australia from 2001 to 2005). But I don’t feel guilty about this change. (…) I can only control what I have done and I am very comfortable with that. If people think I lied, that’s their opinion. I can’t do anything about it. »
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