Eddie Jones plans to rock his group for 2023
Just extended two more years, the England coach is thinking of renewing his group for the 2023 World Cup in France.
England may have aligned the youngest team in the final of a World Cup in Japan last fall, coach Eddie Jones said Monday expect a major renewal by the next edition in France in 2023 “I don’t think this group has the potential to play a World Cup again,” said the Australian, speaking to the BBC. Jones is sure to be there after the 2-year contract extension signed last weekend. “There will be core members who can continue until the next World Cup, but there will be a contribution of new members who will arrive,” he predicted.
For the Six Nations Tournament – of which England was leading with France a day before the end, before the competition was interrupted by the coronavirus epidemic – “we changed 20% of the group”, a- he stressed. “There will be another 20% change for the second year and another 20% the third. This is how we instill progress in the team, ”explained the coach.
Jones, who lost another World Cup final when he headed Australia to the British in 2003, is already looking for new blood. “You always have to be looking for better players, players who can bring something to the team,” he said. If the players (who were in the final of the World lost against South Africa 32-12 in November) have the desire and the will to continue to work and to improve, then we will have a hell of a competition for places in the group, “he concluded.
