Coming from a South African - i think Eddie is a great coach.

“We still haven’t found what drum it is but we’re looking for it.” - Joe Marler 😂

South Africa executed their game plan perfectly converting pressure into points....staying calm and resolute in defense...playing a full twenty three man game...rather than fifteen men plus subs...it was classic upfront bok rugby with a twist going wide

Easiest think in world to do it’s criticise ! Lets give Eddie he’s due and support him and the England team he got us to the Final ,OK we lost but move on I like Eddie says it as is and if he loses it sometimes being asked some stupid questions after big games so what he’s only human and truly passionate. 10 out of 10 in my book👍

Thank u Eddie Jones for what u have done for us.

The scrum improved when Marler came on. Cole and Vunipola got smashed.

Eddie is the only person in world rugby who has three World Cup Medals. 2003 🥈 2007🥇 2019🥈

I see a lot of comments about how ENG would have been unstoppable had they played RSA like they did NZ, or how RSA did not deserve the win because they lost to NZ in the pool game, or even how the loss in the pool was part of the plan. Here is the thing, RSA still holds the best winning margin against NZ, with NZ beating them 59% of the time, beating AUS 69% of the time, and ENG in 4th under the Lions they beat 78% of the time. That's exactly why most NZ's hold RSA to this day as their greatest adversary. I understand those stats are all time but it does paint a picture. RSA has started to figure out NZ again, in the 3 years leading up to the World Cup they managed a home win, an away draw, and an away win. NZ also never quite looked as imposing in 2019 as other years and I think consistency was an issue for them as well, as they also lost to AUS 47-26 in 2019 and AUS were nowhere in the World Cup. So past results might have a place, but don't say much when it comes to knock out rugby. Don't forget the IRL victory in 2018 16-9, how did they look against NZ? But and it's a big but, if ENG played the best game of rugby against NZ in the semi, the best game anyone has played in years, how is it reasonable to believe that they would have ever managed to repeat that performance as it was always going to be the exception to the rule, no matter who they played that day. The thing is the pool results don't matter, the first prise is getting into the QF, after that you need to peak at the right time. NZ has a history of losing in World Cup playoff games as favorites. RSA has never lost a final. RSA could/should have beaten NZ in the 2015 SF, would they have won the final, who knows it's impossible to say. RSA was robed against AUS in 2011 QF, would they have beaten (In my mind a very average NZ, that really struggled in the SF and final) and beaten an even worst FRA in the final, who knows? The issue is that it's difficult to repeat those performances week in and week out and knock out phases are brutal. Some say RSA had the easy route, really? The WLS games was brutal and ENG dismantled NZ by half time? Mabey it was because NZ played IRL the week before, o but the same thing happened thereafter 40min. No one would have beaten NZ on the day they played IRL, no one would beat ENG on the day they played NZ and no one would have beaten RSA in the final, that's my take, they all peaked at separate times and the results speak for themselves. 3 Great teams and the best 3 in the World Cup in my opinion. As good as ENG were in the SF, I don't think any team would have stopped RSA in the final, it's just one of those days where the opposition has there tails up and everything is going there way and most importantly peaking in the FINAL! Would have been a brutal game had that happened tough

Eddie is without a doubt one of the greatest coach/students of the game...he took England to a world cup final....an achievement within itself

Honestly don’t get the hate with this bloke. He’s the best coach we’ve had in years.

It's unfair to pick on the two players mentioned - the entire England team was out of sorts from the start whistle. IMO the Springboks did not allow England to play & capitalised on their own chances - on another day it may have been completely different.

Eddie, for all the bluster, is a much better coach than Clive Woodward...and a more honest human being.

No team could have beaten SA in the final considering their strategy and how they executed it.

Listen and learn with Eddie

See how EJ loves his players! His track record with a youngish team speaks for itself. If England got 55 minutes out of Sinckler rather than three, we might be world champions. The Boks played fewer winning cards brilliantly that night. EJ won’t hide from that. Bring on 2023!

No scrum = no chance.

Woodwards standards were higher, because they needed to set the standard insofar as professionalism. The current generation has no such axe to grind - they've never known amateurism. Everyone hates boring vanilla interviews.

Try as I might I cannot picture an Eddie Jones outfit having a lax or lackadaisical atmosphere, so I have to disagree with the former Mr Clive Woodward here. We should have had a better scrummager on the bench, should have had a third scrumhalf instead of two wings we were never going to use, should have had six forwards on the bench too

I am a Welshman who loves the personalities that Eddie Jones and Joe Marler bring to the game. Give me this pair any day over the likes of Gatland and Alyn Wyn.

What happened to that player who was laughing next to Eddie Jones when he was at Japan?

Huge fan of Eddie Jones and great interview with Eddie Jones, cheers from Oklahoma

Will Greenwood was a great player but bless his cottons, he's a personality free zone.

England have a great coach in Eddie wake up.!!! Clive also had 2 swings at the cup before making it. Joe Marler is a must in the England set up i think you underestimate his commitment. You can always fire Eddie we as the springboks will work with him no probs and win another one. There was nothing international rugby teams can do against the Springbok scrum. so wake up and see what NZ has done to avoid that.

good questions Will

This is the perfect response from Eddie Jones. He absorbs the criticism and deflects from his players. Personally I thought it was a combination of bad luck and a terrible game by Ben Youngs. I like Ben Youngs and he's been great since bu t there it is.

England lost because that's what happens on a sports field no matter how good you are, or what expectations people have. Ask NZ.

Eddie Jones is an awesome coach ... South Africa are an awesome team, no argument from this Englishman.

Yes ed

england are world class and so is eddie jones new zealand play a fast game and thats what england done with them england put the best they had and won but they needed to recover and it takes more than a week so have a day of sir clive whinger

O, my soul!!! How long will England still try to find a reason why they have lost???!!

Cole was dominated at scrum

not to take away the England win of 2003, they did not meet the All Blacks on their RWC pathway. unfortunately for Jones, he had to meet the All Blacks twice on his way to the two RWC Finals (2003, 2019) and beat them but lost the Finals twice. how cruel is that.... well, hopefully, 3rd time lucky in 2023...

On the day we were just the better team. Period. That happens in any sport. You can prepare as much as you want and can but on the day it comes to a lot of things and luck also play a role. This is from a Bok supporter. Accept and move on England. You were beaten fair and square by a better team

Very surprised that Eddie got thumped in the final by SA when he was able to coach Japan to victory over SA in 2015.

Eddie is great you should keep him. Respect for not going for uncontested scums in the final (like Italy).

Bloody love Eddie.

Clive never liked players with overtly strong characters except for his captain. The rest had to be automatons at least in public. They won the world cup but every behind the scenes look at that team shows it to be a tediously dull environment imho. Marler would definitely have been labelled as an "energy sapper".

Dan Cole deserves criticism for his performance, but Joe turned the whole thing around. Took Garces a while to cotton on, but they completely dominated SA after he came one. He should have come on way earlier imho.

Clive Woodward as a pundit , is increasingly an annoyance, I have come to conclude as correct, what I was told at the time , it was Johnno, and leaders in every position that won the WC in 2003. Woodward’s self confessed Admiration for his first love “ soccer “ speaks volumes .....

Eddie Jones doesn't care about players, their careers or their thoughts and concerns. All he cares about it winning.

Could have ironed his shirt ffs

His comfort blanket was winning the world cup but he had a lot off bad results after that he should stay out of it now and stop taking cheap shots at the current manager

Woodward doesn't want other English teams (One's that he doesn't manage) to succeed. He's a bitter and twisted man

Great coach

Jones, for once, decides not to insult another country/team/individual 🙄

You slotted into the English culture very well mate.... all excuses.. they could have, they should have ... But history tells us they didn't...!!!

If you look closely at south African rugby world cup victories...you,LL see that it's about the twelve year cycle...the players who taste victory today are part of a squads that have tasted victory on various levels,be it in seven aside rugby,junior world cups,provincial rugby ,overseas club rugby...there's a culture of rugby in those countries...new Zealand and south Africa are among the very few countries in the world where a kid can grow up and say to himself ,at ten years or even younger...I want to be an all or a bok...which other countries can you say that in...maybe Fiji or Samoa... ...but even those kids who have talent but not the resources will say...all black .. It's in soccer countries too.. In baseball ...athletics .... What English kid says that at ten in the sport of rugby. This is what commentators mean when they say ....it must be the water mate that breeds them to be and think like that....this is why the allblacks dominate and why the springboks dominate... To wear those jumpers you have an honour bestowed on you that is greater than any politician or prime minister... You need to build that culture And it takes decades... Clive Woodward is a world cup winner as a coach....ask him about the mountains of failure he had to climb to be successful...I watched him when England got beat 73 to almost nothing ,and how he took it in his stride....this is why the world loves and admired him...cause England is a soccer nation and he engineered a rugby world cup victory out of them...that takes balls

Diversity in Rugby Union? 🤔🤣🤣 What, which level of private school did they go?

I'd like Ed to get a RWC tournament win under his belt. Goodness knows the old bugger has got close a time or two. Mind you, a miss is as good as a mile. When all's said and done, for me, Ed is a very fine elite level coach, and a damn good man.

Why would anyone listen to Clive Woodward? The man is obsessed with his own importance on any matters rugby.Same man who presided over the worst Lions tour in the history of touring.

could have ironed his shirt

Its not Eddie its an England thing....Rugby football etc....its just vlind arrogance. Remember in the football when England lost to Iceland. They were raving how a hammering for Iceland was on the cards. Not! Eddie is class and doesn't deserve that type of comeback you train and prepare but the players didn't deliver and south Africa totally dominated and were stronger in every aspect. First scrum was a red light. In the warm up Mitchell confirmed his fears. Sa were men englamd were boys......arrogance is an English thing.

Johnny May 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔

South Africa kakked off in the semi against Wales and lucky to get through to the final. England overwhelmed the AB. But the boks outplayed England and would have beaten any team in the final. All this navel gazing and criticism of players is bs. It’s about the day. Previous coaches should follow the adage “a gentleman doesn’t tell”.

Dont get the narrative that England didn't show up. The last 5 results are Boks by 3 to Englands 2 and England where lucky to win at home with Farrells shoulder charge a year before the Final. All results point to the Boks being a better team.

England played their final a week earlier against NZ and i think they mentally switched off for the Final. The 2019 Boks will not go down as one of the greats. The were big bruisers, a tight five on the bench and got a lot of luck. Also, Ireland were not favourites for the Feb game in Twickenham and were not talking all week. Just Jones being a prat

‘SA Didn’t have to be at their best in the semi final’ - what a load of garbage 😂

what a knob they didnt have to be at there best in the semi it was three points in it with 4 mins to go typical arrogance gatlin called it right there final was against the all blacks

The simple fact is South Africa had an easy run to the final and played to their best in that match. England couldn't replicate their own level of performance from the previous week. This is the nature of a World Cup. Are South Africa the best team in the world? Absolutely not, as proved by NZ in the same world cup. Are SA better than England? Absolutely not, but they were better on the day that it mattered. The disappointment still lingers - but that's sport.