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Jones admits Owen Farrell ‘very unhappy’ about losing captaincy

Eddie Jones has admitted that Owen Farrell was "very unhappy" when the coach informed him he would lose the England captaincy to Courtney Lawes.
Lawes was first named captain last Autumn and in the 2022 Six Nations, with Farrell out with an ankle injury.
But the man who took over the captaincy off Dylan Hartley into the lead up to the last World Cup is now seeing the same thing happen to him in the lead up to this one.
And when asked about Farrell's demotion, Jones replied that Farrell was: "Very unhappy.
“Owen is a bloke who expresses his feelings clearly and he wants to be captain. When I to...

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