{"id":706632,"date":"2026-01-19T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/706632\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:36:10","slug":"eddie-jones-three-standout-theories-on-all-blacks-boss-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/706632\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Jones’ three ‘standout’ theories on All Blacks boss’ exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Jones believes that there are three key things to note about Scott Robertson\u2019s sacking after giving his view on New Zealand Rugby\u2019s huge decision.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 51-year-old was shown the door midway through his four-year contract despite presiding over a 74 per cent win percentage.<\/p>\n

That is greater than his predecessor Ian Foster, but it was not enough for him to escape the axe as NZR terminated his deal.<\/p>\n

Foster was saved by the players, who gave their backing to him, but the opposite appears to be true with Robertson<\/a>, whose All Blacks<\/a> set-up was criticised.<\/p>\n

However, former England and Wallabies boss Jones<\/a> reckons that the dismissal of the head coach will not solve the governing body\u2019s real issues.<\/p>\n

New Zealand Rugby\u2019s failings<\/p>\n

\u201cSome things stand out to me. Firstly, we\u2019ve spoken about the decline in New Zealand rugby since 2019, and their record against South Africa is less than 50 per cent,\u201d he said on the Rugby Unity<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an ongoing trend in New Zealand rugby of which Scott Robertson is not in control of. He could have arrested it, but there\u2019s probably a talent issue starting to arise in New Zealand, which they need to look at from a more holistic point of view. Sometimes the coach pays the price for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second point is I hate how these things are now handled by the administrators, and the third point is that he\u2019s still winning at 74 per cent, which is the highest of any coach in this period apart from [Rassie] Erasmus.<\/p>\n

\u201cFoster was similar. It\u2019s down from the 80\/85 per cent [under Graham Henry and Steve Hansen] of the previous team and, again, does that show you something longer term in New Zealand of which Scott Robertson is paying the price?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sir Wayne Smith issues pointed comments over Scott Robertson\u2019s sacking after New Zealand Rugby\u2019s \u2018guesswork\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

It was reported that the players were unhappy with the environment created by Robertson, with Ardie Savea named as one of the people who had aired their grievances.<\/p>\n

Savea was said to be \u201cseriously unhappy\u201d and considering his All Blacks future, almost becoming the face of the supposed player revolt against the now former head coach.<\/p>\n

NZR chair David Kirk was quick to dismiss the allegations of a player-led rebellion, but Jones has questioned the governing body\u2019s role in how this information reached the general public.<\/p>\n

\u2018You have to feel for Ardie Savea\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThey obviously did a survey and review at the end of the year. You would think that the comments made by the players about the coach and any other person involved in the review would be confidential,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey cease to be confidential when it\u2019s useful for the union to jettison the coach. You have to feel for Ardie Savea in this situation as well; he\u2019s been made out to be the bad guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayers should always have a say on what\u2019s going on, there\u2019s no doubt about that. If you go to your local Starbucks or coffee shop, there\u2019s 30 people in there. You do a survey, there will be one person whose coffee is too strong, one person whose coffee\u2019s not strong enough, one person who says the air conditioning\u2019s too warm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always problems within a team. They think on the basis of the information they\u2019ve got that the problems are too big to be solved quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really have a bee in my bonnet about how it\u2019s been dealt with in the media by New Zealand Rugby; there should be more discretion used in this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Matt Williams revels in All Blacks \u2018mess\u2019 after \u2018exceptionally harsh\u2019 Scott Robertson sacking<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Jones believes that there are three key things to note about Scott Robertson\u2019s sacking after giving his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[74021,225,90462,704,12,4151,18132,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-706632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-eddie-jones","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-internationals","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-rugby","14":"tag-scott-robertson","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115922507091960290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}