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Jones’ sell-by-date ended when England lost to Boks at the World Cup

I LIKE Eddie Jones. He is great for the promotion of the game. He has a wonderful sense of humour, is astute and he is extremely clever.

But he won’t win England a World Cup and he knows it.

Jones, a former Wallabies head coach and Springbok specialist adviser, should have departed England after the humiliating defeat in the 2019 World Cup final against the Boks.

Jones is a brilliant tactician and one of the technical masters of the game. He is also a control

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