Courtney Lawes has revealed he was not consulted by the RFU over the decision and was not aware any players had been
The RFU chief executive, Bill Sweeney, led a review into England’s performance, assisted by anonymous panel members, and despite Jones fighting for his job at a meeting at Twickenham last week, he was shown the door after seven years in the role.“I heard the news last Tuesday and just gave [Eddie] a text thanking him for his service and what he had done for my career. That’s all I could really do. I was quite surprised because it’s so close to the World Cup.
“I know I’m one of the lucky ones, he didn’t give me much stick or anything like that and he was ultimately really good for my career. I know that’s not the case for everyone so people may have different opinions but for me, personally, I was sad to see him go. “It’s hard to see. Because you’re removed from the last camp and you don’t know what has happened, what has gone on or how the players were really feeling, the staff, there’s not much you can say about it. From the Australia tour we were going in the right direction, I thought we had made a lot of strides towards the World Cup and to not be able to make progress on that this autumn for whatever reason.
Lawes made his first appearance in 11 weeks off the bench last week in Northampton’s heavy defeat by La Rochelle and starts Sunday’s match against Munster.
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