Jones set to quit Saracens

[travelling_gerry]

Jones set to quit Saracens






Brent Read | February 03, 2009


Article from: The Australian

FORMER Wallabies coach Eddie Jones is poised to resign as mentor of English club Saracens and may take up a role with rugby league club Wigan.

An announcement on Jones's future could come as early as next week.

It is understood Jones was not happy with the direction in which the new South African co-owners of Saracens were taking the club.

The situation at Saracens became less appealing for Jones when the club's Australian chief executive Mark Sinderberry left two months ago.

Sinderberry was chief executive of the Brumbies when Jones coached the ACT team to the Super rugby title in 2001 and the two men had a good working relationship.

Sinderberry's departure has prompted Jones to re-think his future at Saracens, which is in seventh place on the premiership table with a 6-6 win-loss record.
Jones is believed to be looking for work in Europe, but he will not return to Australia.

There is a chance Jones could link up with Wigan, the former club of England and Saracens rugby league convert Andy Farrell.

Jones is a keen student of rugby league and he has incorporated elements of the 13-a-side code in his rugby strategies.

He was also the prime mover in the recruitment of Australian rugby league converts Wendell Sailor, Mat Rogers and Lote Tuqiri to the Wallabies.

Jones's decision to leave Saracens continues his roller-coaster career in coaching.
During his four years at the Brumbies, Jones earned a reputation as a brilliant and innovative coach. Jones succeeded Rod Macqueen at the Wallabies in 2001 and guided Australia to the final of the 2003 World Cup where the men in gold just fell short against the Jonny Wilkinson-inspired England team.

But Jones's last two years with the Wallabies were not as successful. There were issues with his management style when assistant coaches Andrew Blades and Roger Gould both quit the Wallabies in 2004.

The ARU sacked Jones at the end of 2005 after the Wallabies lost eight of their last nine Tests under his command.

Jones returned to Super rugby in 2007 to coach Queensland, but the Reds finished last on the table with a 2-11 win-loss record, which included a humiliating 92-3 loss to the Bulls in Pretoria in the last round.

Later that year Jones also secured a consultancy with South Africa and was involved in the Springboks' World Cup victory in France.

Jones is in Japan where he has a long-standing consultancy with the Suntory club.


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[Burgs]

Jones may want to be careful he doesn't fall into the unemployable category, he has certainly moved with the wind since the Wallabies.

[sandgroperrugby]

This guy can’t keep himself out of the media can he!!! Every other week he is saying or doing something, he must ring the SMH journo’s every day with an update of his activities!! Eddie I for one do not care what you are doing!!

[jargan83]

looking at the win loss record, is he resigning before he is sacked?

[welshrugbyfan]

Thats two gone this year, Heyneke Meyer took compassionate leave in January 2009 from his Tigers post to attend to family matters in South Africa – however, Meyer tendered his resignation from the Leicester Tigers on January 28, 2009.

[Thequeerone]

Reckon Jones is burnt out - nothing measures up to his standards

[waratahjesus]

suddenly the stars are alligning!
john mitchell is on the outter!
eddie jones is making himself available!
join the dots people!
eddie is coming home!
he identified matt giteau as a youth, brought him into the wallabies and now he wants to coach him again!
no wonder matt is waiting to resign, he wants to make sure eddie is in charge when he does!

[welshrugbyfan]

suddenly the stars are alligning!
john mitchell is on the outter!
eddie jones is making himself available!
join the dots people!
eddie is coming home!
he identified matt giteau as a youth, brought him into the wallabies and now he wants to coach him again!
no wonder matt is waiting to resign, he wants to make sure eddie is in charge when he does!

Big call WJ.

I watched the press conference this morning with the 4 Super 14 Coaches. They asked them all about Benji Marshall playing in Japan in the off season and then asked all the coaches individually about it they would sign him. JM just dismissed it and said he wouldn't comment on it. But you could just see the press fishing for a story about who would sign him.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

[travelling_gerry]

suddenly the stars are alligning!
john mitchell is on the outter!
eddie jones is making himself available!
join the dots people!
eddie is coming home!
he identified matt giteau as a youth, brought him into the wallabies and now he wants to coach him again!
no wonder matt is waiting to resign, he wants to make sure eddie is in charge when he does!

therefore...Matt Giteau for the in 2010 and 2011 and beyond.

(till Eddie gets sacked again)

[Thequeerone]

No TG Tahman will swoop in and carry him away to Tahland

[waratahjesus]

when is the west going to get a giant force for a mascot?

maybe eddie jones could become your mascot!

[sandgroperrugby]

when is the west going to get a giant force for a mascot?

maybe eddie jones could become your mascot!

What like bring out the GIMP!!

[Burgs]

when is the west going to get a giant force for a mascot?

We already have one, it's called the members

[waratahjesus]

its not even real membership, its season tickets!
thats why i dont bother with the Tahs, there is no real advantage to it!
thats why the Tahs pay for me now!

[Burgs]

The "force" is the knowledge at the start and during each season that you (as a player) have a group of people behind you for the full season who are committed to the club/franchise/team/whatever. Also at Members Days, Dinners, Season Launches etc.

I'm not sure what you define as a "real membership" but I get a card each year that says "Member" on it. The structure of the competition doesn't allow for voting memberships to exist so it is the highest form of membership of ownership available.