The Rugby Australia boss says the Wallabies coach has denied interviewing with Japanese rugby, but it would be disappointing if evidence to the contrary emerged.
Rugby Australia chief executive Phil Waugh says he would consider it disloyal for Eddie Jones to have conducted a job interview with the Japanese Rugby Football Union before the World Cup, if he sees proof the discussions took place.
When O’Keefe suggested that was “a big call”, Waugh replied: “It’s not a big call. That’d be fair to say that if those conversations were occurring in the middle of a World Cup campaign for Australia, at a World Cup that we were going to win, then it would be disappointing.”“Contracts are interesting, as you know. I’m not going to get into the legalities of the wording within a contract,” Waugh said.
Waugh also sidestepped questions about Jones’ future, pointing instead to possible action following an independent review of the Wallabies’ World Cup campaign.“We need to do a thorough assessment of our performance and the campaign, which we’re in the process of doing and, hopefully, we can do that really quickly,” Waugh said.
Waugh also indicated the controversial absence of senior players such as Michael Hooper and Quade Cooper hurt the Wallabies’ World Cup campaign, which ended with Australia missing the knockout stage for the first time., and other senior players, in his squad, and instead took the most inexperienced Wallabies side ever to a World Cup.
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