RUGBY MATTERS

SO Eddie Jones was coining it over in Japan this January helping coach Suntory, and Beauden Barrett in particular, just weeks before England’s abject display in the Six Nations.
And he has been there again recently in his lucrative consultancy job with the flagship side of one of Japan’s richest corporations.
The RFU say they are fully aware of Jones’ long standing consultancy with Suntory but that doesn’t make his moonlighting any more acceptable. Ian Ritchie was so desperate to sign him in 2015 that the RFU indulgently let him continue with ...