Eddie Jones wasn’t born yesterday and he doesn’t just make this stuff up. By holding court on a Monday it allows the English head coach to set the agenda for the week and so it’s fairly to safe to assume his utterances have been pre-planned.
The secret is to take it all with a large dollop of salt, or at any rate regard it as the invariably entertaining sideshow that it is.
There was his jibe at Ireland (and their supporters) prior to the 2017 Six Nations finale at the Aviva Stadium when he forecast: “It will be raining high balls – it will be kick and clap and the fans at the Aviva Stadium love it. They love that and get excited so we know what to expect.”
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- March 8, 2022
