The Rugby Football Union has given its 100% backing to Steve Borthwick after the sudden resignations of Felix Jones and Aled Walters with the chief executive, Bill Sweeney, refuting suggestions of an “unstable working environment”.
Confirming publicly Jones’s decision to quit after just eight months, Sweeney admitted he was blindsided by the defence coach’s resignation as well as Walters’s departure to Ireland and, evidently happy to make his views clear, described the double blow as “deeply disappointing”.
