Eddie Jones

Wallabies coach Dave Rennie has been sacked with immediate effect and former England boss Eddie Jones is set to lead the side at this year's World Cup in ...

"The Wallabies squad is a really talented group of players with good depth - if we can have everyone fit and healthy going into the World Cup this year, I am confident that we can go to France and break the 24-year drought of winning the Rugby World Cup. "It is going to be an immense period for Australian rugby - as a proud Australian, it is a great honour to be able to come home and lead the national team during these years," he said. "It is a wonderful opportunity for me to be able to come home to Australia and lead my nation to a Rugby World Cup," Jones said. "Dave has been instrumental in developing much of the depth that we see in and around the current Wallabies squad; there are a number of players that are genuine World Cup possibilities because of opportunities that Dave has provided," he said. "It is a major coup for Australian rugby to have the best coach in the world return home to coach the iconic Wallabies and to oversee the Wallaroos program," McLennan said. "Eddie's deep understanding of our rugby system and knowledge of our player group and pathways will lift the team to the next level," he said.

Ex-England coach Eddie Jones will replace Kiwi Rennie after the latter was dumped by Rugby Australia.

One of his immediate goals as Wallabies coach will be to try and win back the Bledisloe Cup from the All Blacks. Jones coached the Wallabies between 2001 and 2005. [survived the axe following a poor Wallabies year which yielded five wins from 14 tests](https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/130731734/wallabies-return-on-cards-as-eddie-jones-fields-call-from-rugby-australia-chair-hamish-mclennan). He had previously been in charge of Scotland club side Glasgow Warriors since 2017. “The Wallabies squad is a really talented group of players with good depth – if we can have everyone fit and healthy going into the World Cup this year, I am confident that we can go to France and break the 24-year drought of winning the Rugby World Cup. “It is a major coup for Australian Rugby to have the best coach in the world return home to coach the iconic Wallabies and to oversee the Wallaroos program,” McLennan said.

Rugby Australia has signed Eddie Jones to be the Head Coach of the Wallabies, as well as overseeing the Wallaroos, on a long-term deal until 2027.

“It is going to be an immense period for Australian Rugby – as a proud Australian, it is a great honour to be able to come home and lead the national team during these years. “It is a wonderful opportunity for me to be able to come home to Australia and lead my nation to a Rugby World Cup. “It is a major coup for Australian Rugby to have the best coach in the world return home to coach the iconic Wallabies and to oversee the Wallaroos program.

Rugby Australia have appointed Eddie Jones to the position of head coach on a five-year deal, a little over a month after his England sacking, ...

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“I would like to thank Dave for his hard work and effort with the Wallabies – we are grateful for all that he has done for Australian Rugby,” RA CEO Andy ...

“It is a wonderful opportunity for me to be able to come home to Australia and lead my nation to a Rugby World Cup,” he said. “It is a major coup for Australian Rugby to have the best coach in the world return home to coach the iconic Wallabies and to oversee the Wallaroos program,” RA Chairman Hamish McLennan added. “Dave has been instrumental in developing much of the depth that we see in and around the current Wallabies squad; there are a number of players that are genuine World Cup possibilities because of opportunities that Dave has provided.

Jones replaces sacked Rennie in Wallabies bombshell as details of 'major coup' revealed.

There’s no plan to make alterations to the coaching group at this stage. My assumption is we’re going to push on. Jones will also oversee the Wallaroos program, adding that he saw a “real spirit” in their latest performance at the Rugby World Cup and that the current group “will drive the women’s program forward”. “It is a major coup for Australian Rugby to have the best coach in the world return home to coach the iconic Wallabies and to oversee the Wallaroos program,” McLennan said. “Dave has been instrumental in developing much of the depth that we see in and around the current Wallabies squad; there are a number of players that are genuine World Cup possibilities because of opportunities that Dave has provided. “It is going to be an immense period for Australian Rugby — as a proud Australian, it is a great honour to be able to come home and lead the national team during these years,” he said.

Former Wallaby legend and two-time World Cup-winner Tim Horan reacted to the blockbuster appointment as a bold 'risk'.

Australia does have a favourable 2023 World Cup draw after being grouped in Pool C alongside Wales and Fiji. [January 15, 2023]

It's a decision that has made shockwaves around the world as the Wallabies confirm the appointment of Eddie Jones as head coach.

But maybe a risk worth taking considering the current win/loss ratio," Horan notes. "It won't happen before (the World Cup). "Need a Bledisloe Cup (within 2 years) and RWC Semi and Lions win to justify the decision. “I’m obviously in the last stages of coaching, I’ve probably got one job to do and I want to do a job that makes a difference,” Jones said Meanwhile, Tim Horan labelled it a risk but one that might have to be made on the precipice of an important time in Australian Rugby, with Jones taking overseeing both the Wallabies and Wallaroos. [Drew Mitchell likened it to 2019](https://twitter.com/drew_mitchell/status/1614759770283708417) when the decision was made to bring in an independent selector and Director of Rugby over Cheika, concluding with "To some extent, feels like history is repeating itself."

Matt Giteau reckons the Wallabies "won't know what's hit them" after Eddie Jones was replaced Dave Rennie just eight months out from the World Cup.

"Strap yourself in for the ride." He had a Wallabies-worst 38% win rate, compared to Jones' 73% record when he was ousted from the England job in December. Rennie was replaced on Monday in a shock move ahead of September's showpiece, Jones signing a five-year deal that also includes the women's Wallaroos job.

Eight months out from the World Cup, Rugby Australia has taken a risk on bringing the coach back. Will it pay off?

Depending on the source, Jones is also a maverick, a megalomaniac and a madman. On Monday morning, the players reconvened on Zoom where RA’s CEO, Andy Marinos, told them Rennie was fading to black and Jones was back in the golden circle. Although Australia’s players loved Rennie and his gentle quest to unearth their mana (the power of the elemental forces of nature embodied within them), Jones’s appointment will excite them. How sweet it would be to do so in 2023, some 18 years after first the first job as Wallabies coach and less than 12 months after being unceremoniously They have also sent a bold warning shot to the world ahead of the World Cup in September. Jones has a remarkable win-loss record of 82% at the four World Cups he has contested.

Incoming Wallabies coach Eddie Jones was recently asked about the state of Australian rugby, and how the sport could return to its former glory Down Under.

“But they’ll go down and watch a strong Randwick or they’ll go down and watch a Sydney Uni. “Make club rugby as strong as possible. that would be my core administration advice.” It all starts with the grassroots. “I reckon you’ve always got to go back to the roots of the game, and the roots of the game in Australia is club rugby, Jones said. “After the tour I went down to Randwick, sat in the sun and watched Randwick play Eastwood, and the level of rugby was pretty good.

The RFU lost patience with the Australian but he is back in his natural habitat and will be lying in wait come the World Cup.

Suddenly Jones is back on fury road, not just looming large across England’s windshield but also set to lock horns with the British & Irish Lions who are due to tour Australia in 2025. As far as Twickenham is concerned, Jones may be out of sight but no longer is he out of mind. In a ground-breaking development he is also assuming overall charge of the Wallaroos, Australia’s women’s side, opening up another fascinating front with the potential to irritate his former employees. With England there was often a sense of Jones wrestling with slightly unfamiliar cultural factors – English reserve, the class system, public school attitudes, the less easily controlled media. Jones will need to find himself a fit fly-half and a decent physio, with injury problems having decimated the Wallabies over the latter half of last year. Because Jones, without question, will be on a mission to prove a lot of people wrong. For all his impressive World Cup CV – reaching the final with Australia in 2003, helping South Africa triumph as a consultant in 2007 – he has never guided a team to global glory as a head coach. If a genuine crackle of expectancy did not already surround the quarter-final weekend in Marseille it does now. How mellow he will be feeling if Australia are suddenly transformed while England take time to adjust to life under Borthwick and finish down the Six Nations batting order again could yet be another matter. Imagine if the Wallabies end up facing England in the knockout stages of this year’s Rugby World Cup? Because if the Rugby Football Union thought it had seen the back of Eddie it has been proved spectacularly wrong. As anyone who has ever watched it will be aware there is a particularly scary moment when Wez, the baddie with the punk mohawk who everyone thought was history, suddenly reappears on the bonnet of the road warrior’s thundering truck.

Jones who was released from his role with England following the 2022 Autumn Nations Series will lead Australian Rugby through to the 2027 Rugby World Cup. The ...

In addition to his responsibilities with men’s game, Jones will also oversee the women’s game during his tenure. Following their shock victory over the Springboks, Japan would go on to reach further heights and are now recognised as a genuine tier one rugby nation. Following his immensely successful stint with Japan, Jones was appointed to the England head coach role following their disappointing 2015 World Cup campaign.

FitzSimons says Rennie's axing was brutal but the return of 'Cyclone Eddie' is a good one.

“He wasn’t always looking for the most talented. “He’ll blow the doors of the dressing room off. He also led Japan to their famous pool play win over South Africa in the 2015 tournament.

While forecast by some, the dramatic return of Eddie Jones to Australian rugby not much more than a month after being sacked off...

“At what point does the focus turn on the people who make the appointments in the first place? 6-8 months before a World Cup, Rugby AU’s leadership lose faith in the current coach. Some of the boys won’t know what’s hit them.” Strap yourself in for the ride.” Matt Giteau tweeted that Wallabies won’t know what’s hit them: “Eddie back. “Eddie Jones as new Wallabies coach……brave and has some risk.

The cards have fallen perfectly for Australia's new coach in France.

The RFU decided against inserting a clause in Eddie Jones's severance package to prevent him coaching England's rivals at thie World Cup this year for ...

“I’m delighted for Eddie that he is coaching his home country. Given the length of his tenure as England head coach, Jones was subject to UK employment law which states that employees are entitled to one week’s notice per year served. [confirmed on Sunday night as the new Wallabies head coach](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jan/16/eddie-jones-wallabies-coach-rugby-world-cup-2023-australia-dave-rennie-sacked), marking a stunning return to the post he left in 2005 and raising the tantalising prospect of returning to haunt his former employers in the knockout stages of the World Cup this year.

The return of former England coach Eddie Jones to take the reins of the Wallabies represents a gamble by Australian rugby chiefs.

"No-one starts with their feet off the ground or they don't get in the team. Add to that the character they showed to come back and beat Wales 39-34 after trailing 34-13 and there appears to be a solid base for Jones to build on. Jones has a more abrasive and no-nonsense style than Rennie and whether that proves a spark or inhibits the natural exuberance of the youngsters could be pivotal to the Wallabies' progress. "He will be remembered for the misguided rhetoric and unfulfilled promises," Woodward wrote in a Daily Mail column after his sacking. "Coaching at the next World Cup will be difficult," Jones told the Sydney Morning Herald after he was dismissed in December, admitting the last three years of his tenure in charge of England had taken a toll. In his favour he does -- rather like Jose Mourinho in football -- have a knack of hitting the ground running and securing results before the love affair sours.

New Wallabies head coach Eddie Jones has five Tests to find answers with his new team ahead of this year's Rugby World Cup.

If Jones can convince Rugby Australia to open that rule up further, much like South Africa did for Rassie Erasmus in 2018, then he can improve his playing base. His success with England was built on a generational Saracens club team and quality assistant coaches, without which the Emperor had no clothes. The Wallabies will not come back from that to achieve anything more than a quarter-final appearance at best. Just 10 victories in 47 Tests in South Africa show how difficult this plight has been, with the last win there over a decade ago in 2011. When England had experienced and quality assistants under Jones, like new head coach Steve Borthwick, John Mitchell and Wisemantel, they were successful. [Will Skelton](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/will-skelton/), [Rory Arnold](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/rory-arnold/) and [Sean McMahon](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/sean-mcmahon/) up front as well as the likes of [Samu Kerevi](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/samu-kerevi/), [Marika Koroibete](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/marika-koroibete/) and [Quade Cooper](https://www.rugbypass.com/players/quade-cooper/) in his backline, the Wallabies will undoubtably be stronger. Given the state of Australian Rugby compared to 20 years ago, Jones will have to perform magic to get three tier one wins in a row, which has already alluded the coach with far better sides in the past. The other big question is whether the Wallabies have the playing base to deliver a World Cup for Jones. Jones’ new Wallabies outfit will likely be crushed in Pretoria in their first Test with a lack of time to get a cohesive plan together against what will be a good Springbok team, dampening expectations and ending the honeymoon period with the enamoured Australian coach very quickly. Under Rennie the Wallabies won three of four tests over the World Cup holders, but Australia does not have a good track record of success in South Africa. To say time is of the essence is an understatement, but the good news is the Wallabies will play three of the top four sides in those five Tests, along with a much-improved Argentina who possess a strong defence that stumped England, New Zealand and Australia in 2022. The strength of the schedule gives Jones enough to get a gauge from, but the real risk is that Australia’s World Cup campaign ends before it starts with confidence in tatters by the end of this run.

Expect Jones' delight in baiting the All Blacks to continue - his 2019 Rugby Cup taunt was that "pressure will be chasing them down the street''.

Jones then came up with a line of his own, as he explained why the All Blacks should be sweating. The All Blacks, many who were in Yokohama when the curtain dropped on their World Cup dream, should already know that. The second may be played in Dunedin. During that period the Wallabies won five of their 11 tests against the New Zealanders. In other words, don't buckle under the weight of expectation. Providing he lasts the distance, of course. “[Former Wallabies coach] Bob Dwyer, who won the World Cup in 1991, always used to say ‘if you can’t change a team in a week, you can’t coach’. It was never proved to be true, or otherwise. Then again, the men who tore up his contract probably don't care. It was in Dunedin, at the now defunct Carisbrook, that Jones took charge of the Wallabies for the first time against the All Blacks in 2001. He talked up the Wallabies chances of winning the World Cup in France later this year. We’ve got more than a week, so let’s hope I can coach.”