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Sayonara to England’s hopes of improvement | Nick Cain

Nick Cain struggles to understand how the RFU can pay £750,000pa to Eddie Jones and not expect undivided attention from the coach who is consulting with Suntory Sungoliath

THE panel of unknowns assembled by RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney to preside over the RFU’s latest “Carry On Eddie” caper will have got a nasty jolt this week.
The news of Eddie Jones hopping on a plane to Japan to engage in his consultancy coaching role with Suntory Sungoliath – including swapping trade secrets, with New Zealand flyhalf Beauden Barrett – will have hit them like a Manu Tuilagi hand-off.
As predicted in this column a month ago, the no-names did a complete whitewash job on the England head coach’s Six Nations performance, leaving no trace of the debrief they were meant to ...

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