You got to hand it to Australia rugby. As we flounder in the Super 14 rumours of the demise of Reds coach Eddie Jones start to circulate.
It seems that Eddie is staying for now but Waratahs coach, Ewan Mckenzie has come out swinging at national coach John Connolly.
New South Wales coach Ewen McKenzie, like Queensland counterpart Eddie Jones, saying that Australia coach John Connolly had undermined him.
McKenzie said today that he believed Connolly was a destabilising influence on his position.
Jones, who received public backing today from the Queensland Rugby Union despite his role remaining in limbo, has pointed the finger at his Wallabies successor for undermining him as he led the injury-ravaged Reds to seven successive defeats – their worst losing streak in 20 years.
The infighting obviously reveals major problems within the structure of Australian rugby. If you are a Wallabies fan looking forward to the Tri-Nations and World Cup don’t get you hopes up. In fact, I wouldn’t even hope at all.
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Club Troppo » Missing Link // Mar 29, 2007 at 8:24 pm
[...] Shaun Cronin notes the current animosity between failed Super 14 rugby coaches Ewen Mc Kenzie and Eddie Jones on the one hand and Wallabies coack John “Knuckles” connolly. Shaun’s suggestion that the Wallabies appear to have Buckley’s Chance in this year’s World Cup is hard to dispute. [...]