Boring boring England yet again. Lawrence doesn’t get a touch, two of the best wingers in the world used as kick chasers, just boring again. Eddie still wants to play without the ball and the players will kick away even if there are options in front of them because that’s what they’re told to do.
Farrell should have been hauled off at half time, looked so rusty as Billy did as well.
Eddie is losing the fans and I was cheering on Scotland really from the start
Need to find that applaud button.
This! A million times over.
Eddie won't change course, he assumes he is right and everyone else is wrong. Some of those players- the cheats who stayed with the cheats- simply have had no rugby. This should have been just as well, because the game plan is to play no rugby, but no England team has been so packed full of talent and yet had so little ambition.
Ultimately Eddie is not the "arse but a winner" he is seen as by some. Two world cup finals as a losing head coach, a six n win pc lower than Lancaster's, record worst 6n ever for England, Australia being reduced to rubble under his leadership, the blots are there for all to see. He has high points to counterbalance, of course, some very good moments, especially in the first two years of any job he has been in, but recently he crowed about winning the autumn cup vs France third XV, and about the 6n, thanks to France imploding, when the warning signs have been there for all to see.
Eddie Jones is actually very insecure.
Some may seem to think he has an overly-inflated opinion of himself.
But actually....he is deeply insecure.
He is desperate to protect his win/lose ratio...and sets up England ‘not to lose’.
He hates change....and loves control (a good indicator of someone with esteem, OCD and anxiety issues).
He is trying to prove to the world that he understands rugby better than anyone else...and is ahead of the ‘curve’, whatever that means.
He keeps inventing ‘modern scenarios’ that actually don’t exist.
He keeps over complicating the game...and trying to be too clever.
“Let’s play two 7.5’s, three 12’s and four 15’s”???!!!
Basically....he’s terrified of being found-out as an inferior coach.
He keeps going back to his ‘trusted lieutenants’ because he’s terrified of playing people that show up his gameplan for what it really is....which is limited.
He can’t ‘see’ in his own mind how to play a more ambitious and expansive game....and so he won’t empower others to allow it so.
Eddie Jones is over.
I’m sure he’s a lovely guy over a glass of red....but his inability to expand his awareness and broaden his approach is his downfall.
England may continue to win some home nation games....but the RFU will eventually realise he’s not bringing in young fans into the game...and shirt sales will plummet.
English cricket on Channel 4 will win the hearts and minds this Spring. And build steam through the Summer.
Go Joe Root and Ben Stokes!!
England Rugby has a mountain to climb. People are slow to renew their debentures.
Fans are turning away.
Kids are struggling to find interest.
And Eddie is stuck in his own little bubble of limitations and anxiety.
And strangely enough, I feel for the guy.