England’s males’s crew suffered additional upheaval after defence coach Felix Jones resigned from the job in what will probably be an enormous blow to Steve Borthwick.
Jones arrived at England from South Africa having helped them to back-to-back Rugby World Cup titles. He made his mark early on England, introducing their new-look blitz defence, however after 10 months within the job, Jones has resigned, a supply confirmed to ESPN.
Jones has a 12-month discover interval so the resignation is not efficient instantly however it does trigger a monumental headache for Borthwick. That is yet one more excessive profile departure this summer season after their head of power and conditioning Aled Walters left England to hitch Andy Farrell’s Eire. He was joined in leaving England by Tom Tombleson, a long-serving member of the conditioning workers.
There’s additionally ongoing uncertainty over what function Kevin Sinfield will take heading ahead. He moved right into a expertise coach function when Jones arrived and was set to step down after England’s tour of Japan and New Zealand however he might but keep on.
In order that leaves two full-time coaches on Borthwick’s workers – assault coach Richard Wigglesworth and scrum coach Tom Harrison, alongside advisor Andrew Strawbridge. It is a suboptimal scenario for Borthwick as England put together for his or her finish of 12 months Exams with New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Japan coming to Twickenham.
