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Eddie Jones appointed Australian head rugby coach

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Eddie's still riding high on the coaching gravy train making a full circle back home to Oz. Nice work if you can get it, but how much longer will his star shine in the rugby firmament?

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Was hoping the Brave Blossoms would make a play for Eddie. They have never performed better than when he was coach and elevated them to tier 1. But understandable he went back to his Aussie roots. That Rennie guy was truly hopeless!

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Look Eddy was sack as coach of the wallabies because Alan Jones. This re hiring of Eddy means Jones as no influence over Australia Rugby. Which good thing. I agree with Fighto that Japan should of made an offer he couldn’t refuse

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Eddie's "still riding high on the coaching gravy train" because he knows what he's doing. You can only work with the players you have available, so I'm not making any rash predictions (like winning the World Cup). But he's tactically smart, sets high standards in training etc, and doesn't tolerate any stuffing around. I think it's very likely the Wallabies will improve under him, in the short term at least.

The big problem in Australia is at the grassroots of the game (a shallow pool of players), so I'm not sure how you fix that one. Rugby just isn't the first choice winter sport for many boys.

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Jones is a great coach, he seems to get good results at first in a short span of time.

Good news for the Wallabies.

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