NICK CAIN
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HERE’S a prediction. If Eddie Jones does not win the 2019 World Cup, or at the very least go out in a blaze of glory attempting to do so, he will not take up the two-year extension to his England contract heralded by the RFU this week.
As far as we understand it there is a break clause in the extension he has signed from 2019 to 2021, which gives Jones the option not to continue. I believe that if England underperform in Japan he will invoke it and step aside rather than engage in a two-year hand-over to his successor.
That would mean ano...