Jones spies chance to make a point
England coach Eddie Jones is claiming someone has been spying on his team’s training.
Ahead of Saturday night’s World Cup semifinal against the All Blacks, Jones claims someone was filming his side train from an adjacent apartment block overlooking their training ground.
Jones made the accusations during an England’s media conference yesterday.
The training took place at Arcs Urayasu Park in Tokyo.
Jones said it was obvious from the start of the training session that someone was filming them from the building.
``There was definitely someone in the apartment block [across from the training ground] filming, it might have been a Japanese fan,’’ Jones said.
``We knew from the start that they were filming and it doesn’t change anything we do.’’
But he didn’t send security to investigate. ``Don’t care, mate. Don’t care,’’ Jones said.
``We have two security guards – Prince Harry’s . . . and the ex-Prime Minister’s. Only those two. Lovely blokes.’’
Earlier this year, Jones admitted to spying on rival teams in the past but claimed he hadn’t done it since
Eddie Jones on the NZ rugby media
‘‘Fans with keyboards.’’
2001 because it’s not worth the trouble.
``Everyone knows what everyone else does. There’s no surprises in world rugby anymore,’’ Jones said yesterday.
Jones had also hit out at the New Zealand media, claiming its rugby reporters are ``just fans with keyboards’’.
He said all the heat was on the All Blacks – the World Cup favourites – and claimed the pressure will be chasing New Zealand ``down the street’’.
``I don’t think they are vulnerable but pressure is a real thing,’’ Jones said.
``The busiest bloke in Tokyo this week will be Gilbert Enoka, the mental skills coach.
``They have to deal with all this pressure of winning the World Cup three times and it is potentially the last game for their greatest coach [Steve Hansen] and their greatest captain [Kieran Read] and they will be thinking about those things.’’