Until now the most gripping Australian sequel has probably been Mad Max 2. As anyone who has ever watched it will be aware there is a particularly scary moment when Wez, the baddie with the punk mohawk who everyone thought was history, suddenly reappears on the bonnet of the road warrior’s thundering truck. For some at Twickenham the return of Eddie Jones as Australia’s head coach must feel pretty similar.
Because if the Rugby Football Union thought it had seen the back of Eddie it has been proved spectacularly wrong. Like Freddie Krueger in a tracksuit he is now back to haunt English dreams. Imagine if the Wallabies end up facing England in the knockout stages of this year’s Rugby World Cup? And beating them. The RFU’s decision to sack Jones last month would go down as one of the all-time great corporate howlers.
