EDDIE Jones is laughing all the way to the bank, irrespective of whether the conjecture that his salary has been increased to £800,000 following his new contract extension as England head coach is accurate.
Given the current hardship faced by many clubs in England, as well as the RFU’s chief executive, Bill Sweeney, saying that the union faces a £50m black hole in lost revenue over the next year due to the coronavirus pandemic, any increase in Jones’ already astronomic £750,000 salary would be mindbogglingly crass.
It would also be poor negotiation on th...