Rugby Australia boss Phil Waugh has revealed $2.6m in unapproved expenses were invested in Eddie Jones’s disastrous 2023 World Cup campaign. While declining to single out Jones for blame, Waugh on Thursday said the over-spend was “unacceptable” and would not happen again.
“The over-investment that was unapproved was $2.6m, which covered three main elements, being team costs, staff travel and then player benefits,” Waugh said, adding that RA only found out the extent of the excess spending “retrospectively”.
