Eddie Jones resigns after historic World Cup failing as he blasts the health of Super Rugby

Eddie Jones has resigned as Wallabies coach, just 10 months into a five-year deal.

Jones’s imminent departure comes after a disastrous World Cup campaign in which the Wallabies failed to make the quarter-finals for the first time in history.

Under his second tenure in charge, Australia won only two of nine Tests in 2023.

“I”m not a highly religious person, but you’ve always got a job to do somewhere and sometimes, you’ve got to eat a bit of shit for the people to eat the nice buffet a few years later and maybe I’ve had to eat a bit of shit to do it, you know?” Jones said.

“The only thing I’m disappointed about is the media was trying to portray me as not being committed to Australian rugby,” he said.

“The last thing anyone could criticise me about is commitment. Anyone that really knows me, knows I’ve been committed to it. I’ve given it a go.”

Jones took aim at the quality of the Super Rugby competition and lamented the drain of talent switching to other codes as urgent issues for Australian Rugby to address.

“Professional sports is a lot about surviving. You’ve got to enjoy the grind. When you talk to any player, what they’re good at doing is enjoying the grind of hard training together,” he said.

“We just don’t have that in Australian rugby at the moment because it’s too easy to get through, to be in the team.”

“We are letting too many good kids go to NRL and probably some of the tall kids go to the AFL and that is something that needs to be attended to.”

Despite his short and controversial tenure Jones said he had no regrets about his most recent stint in charge of the Wallabies.

“I think if we kept with the status quo, maybe we would have had a quarterfinal exit at the World Cup maybe? Now does that really help us or hinder us in the future? What I decided to do was; I’ll bite the bullet, I will go for the young players and see if we can play above ourselves,” he said.

“We probably played to our form, with what we’ve got now is, is there’s probably now 24 of that 33 that went to the World Cup who’ve now got the right level of experience.”

“I feel disappointed about the fact that what we wanted to do in terms of changing the system hasn’t been able to happen in the short term. In the short and medium term, it really affects me personally. I have a major feeling of disappointment. But I don’t feel any grievance towards anyone.”