{"id":298612,"date":"2023-11-08T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=298612"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:24:36","slug":"eddie-jones-finally-admits-he-is-interested-in-japan-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/rugby-union\/eddie-jones-finally-admits-he-is-interested-in-japan-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Jones finally admits he IS interested in Japan job"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Eddie Jones finally admits he IS interested in Japan job after landing in Tokyo, with former Wallabies boss set for a second interview with Brave Blossoms<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eddie Jones has admitted he is interested in the Japan job\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The former Wallabies boss denied reports of a secret interview\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But he is due for a second interview with Japan bosses in December\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After denying all links with the Japanese head coach role, Eddie Jones has admitted he is &#8216;definitely interested&#8217; in taking the vacancy with the Brave Blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, 63, denied reports claiming he had held talks with Japan rugby bosses ahead of the World Cup in France, with the Australian in charge of the Wallabies at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has since resigned from his post with Rugby Australia, likening the job to &#8216;eating s***&#8217; after less than 10 months in the role.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Kyodo News, Jones has now changed his tune and has publicly stated his desire to return to the Japanese team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve had no offer, let&#8217;s be clear,&#8217; he said after arriving in Tokyo for a holiday with his wife.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/10\/77549787-12724605-image-a-3_1699440579402.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eddie Jones has admitted he is &#8216;definitely interested&#8217; in the Japan coaching job<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t know what the future holds and I can&#8217;t talk about the future.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Jones has been invited to a second interview, which will be held in Tokyo with a panel of JRFU officials in December.<\/p>\n<p>He is still being paid by Rugby Australia until November 25, but laid out his plans for the Brave Blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Japan can&#8217;t stay where they are because if they stay where they are, they&#8217;ll actually start to slide. So they&#8217;ve got to make a big push now,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You&#8217;re going to have to be courageous and you&#8217;re going to have to do things differently. You can&#8217;t just go along and do what you&#8217;re doing now. So that&#8217;s the reason I would be interested.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jones&#8217;s comments comes after Rugby Australia boss Hamish McLennan admitted he would be &#8216;bitterly disappointed&#8217; if his former coach ends up back at Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/10\/77549745-12724605-image-a-2_1699440557856.jpg\" height=\"408\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jones, 63, left the Wallabies last month and is eyeing up the job at the Brave Blossoms<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hopefully, I&#8217;ll be able to see all the facts,&#8217; McLennan said. &#8216;If it&#8217;s true, I&#8217;d be bitterly disappointed knowing the faith and the support that we&#8217;d been given the entire coaching crew and the Wallabies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve spoken to his [Jones&#8217;] agent about it. He claims he&#8217;s got nothing to go to and he&#8217;s been quite adamant about that and I&#8217;ve read his press reports \u2026 I take that on face value.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think in the near future I might be able to learn more about what happened. Certainly the Herald believe there is absolute truth in that. I think in the fullness of time we will find out what&#8217;s happened.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12724605\/Eddie-Jones-finally-admits-interested-Japan-job.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Jones finally admits he IS interested in Japan job after landing in Tokyo, with former Wallabies boss set for <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eddie Jones finally admits he IS interested in Japan job - Sportstons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/rugby-union\/eddie-jones-finally-admits-he-is-interested-in-japan-job\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eddie Jones finally admits he IS interested in Japan job - 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