Why Eddie Jones Should Not Come To Cardiff During the Next Six Nations

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

English national rugby coaches have been, whatever you think of them otherwise, diplomatic when discussing their opponents. Polite, quiet and very careful as to what they are going to say.

So it's a shock that the most unpopular English National coach in my lifetime to other countries in the Six nations championship turns out to be an Australian. Eddie Jones was unpopular before yesterday's video came to light but now things have reached such a level that he should have sent a thank you card to Vladimir Putin or else he would have been undoubtedly headline news.

The Irish I'm sure can defend themselves from being described as "scummy". But let's talk about Wales shall we and his description of the entire country as a "little s**t place".

As I've said often on this blog Wales is not without problems for reasons that are probably too complex for Mr Jones to understand.....but so does England  . A fact that Eddie Jones would appear to be more like his namesake Mr Ed in that he approached the subject with blinkers on.

Having a quick look at his career it would appear that the only part of Wales he knows is Cardiff on Six Nations matches. It doesn't seem he's visited any other part of the nation as well and yet there it is, in all the diversity of it's regions North and South East And West described as a "little s**t place.

Has he seen the golden beaches of Tenby? Or just taken in the views from the South Wales Valleys? Of course not.

I have seen tweets that suggest that all he was doing was providing "banter". Well that's rubbish. As I have said, national coaches should be diplomatic with their opponents. But also the point needs to be made. Eddie Jones wasn't insulting the Welsh team....he was insulting a nation.

I have said before that if there is a problem with the majority of the Welsh people it's that they are just too nice. What needs to happen is that the Welsh Rugby Union need to grow a pair and insist that Jones does not attend the six nations match between Wales and England in Cardiff next year. To allow Jones to attend would reduce the WRU to a sporting lapdog and would be an insult to Wales.

Until the next time