England Rugby head coach Eddie Jones has been shut down by the Rugby Football Union after he criticised the English game’s reliance on the private school system.
In an interview published over the weekend, Jones accused independent schools of not doing enough to produce resilient or skilful rugby players. The Australian believes players from a public-school background crack under pressure due to their ‘closeted life’.
Jones also said the players lacked ‘resolve’, and the RFU would have to ‘blow the whole thing up’. The view has been condemned as ‘insulting’ as well as ‘divisive and disrespectful’ by 2003 World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodard.
