Eddie Jones has known as claims from a former England participant that the now Wallabies coach acted like a “horny teenager” in a dialog about an off-field relationship “totally absurd” and a “complete fabrication”.
On the eve of the World Cup, former England and Melbourne Rebels playmaker Danny Cipriani made the assertions in extracts from his upcoming autobiography Who Am I? that have been printed within the UK press.
Cipriani, considered unfulfilled expertise by many, claimed that at a dinner with Jones in 2016 when he was cost of England, the coach requested him a few TV presenter he had lately damaged up with.
“Eddie keeps pecking, like a horny teenager, and in the end I tell him straight, ‘Eddie, I don’t want to talk about this, it’s making me uncomfortable’,” Cirpiani wrote.
But in response, Jones launched a scathing assault on Cipriani and mentioned the declare was preposterous.
“We didn’t have a close relationship, so I’m hardly going to engage in a conversation like that with him,” Jones informed the Daily Mail.
“To be quite frank, it’s a complete fabrication. We didn’t select him. When players don’t get selected, they always have an axe to grind. We know that.
“He’s selling a book, so nothing surprises me when players want to sell books. It’s absurd. It’s almost too absurd to talk about.
“I think it’s very sad for him that he feels he has to make something up to sell his book.”
Jones mentioned he not often, if ever, engaged with any of the gamers he coached about their off-field relationships and definitely not within the method Cipriani claimed.
“It’s just f–king nonsense. If anyone is stupid enough to pay attention to it, then good luck to them,” he mentioned.
“That’s hardly the sort of language I would use. It’s not how I speak to players. In all the years I’ve coached, there would be very few conversations like that with players.
“It’s not to say I haven’t had a conversation like that, but there would have been very few – and certainly not with Cipriani.
“I’ve learnt to keep an appropriate distance. You don’t coach for the amount of time that I’ve coached without keeping the appropriate distance.
“I get criticised for being too hard – now someone is trying to make out that I’m too familiar with the players. Work out what you want me to be.”
Cipriani was capped simply 16 occasions by England and likewise performed with the Rebels within the Super Rugby competitors in 2011.
Source: www.news.com.au
