Eddie Jones (rugby union)

Edmund Jones

Date of birth	(1960-01-30) 30 January 1960
Place of birth	Tasmania, Australia
School	Matraville Sports High School
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) – Randwick () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 1987–1989 New South Wales 12 (0) Coaching career Years Team 1994 1995–1996 1996 1997 1998–2001 2001–2005 2006 2007 2007 2007–2009 2009–2012 2012–2015 2015– Randwick Tokai University Japan (Assistant) Suntory Sungoliath Brumbies Australia Saracens Consultant Reds South Africa (Assistant) Saracens Suntory Sungoliath Japan England

Eddie Jones (born 30 January 1960) is an Australian rugby union coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the England national rugby union team. He has previously coached the Australian national team during the 2003 Rugby World Cup and also coached the Japanese national team for three years leading up to the 2015 Rugby World Cup. He was born in Burnie, Tasmania, to a Japanese American mother and an Australian father.

Playing career

Jones playing career began at Matraville Sports High School. He played as a hooker for Randwick and New South Wales. Jones played against the British & Irish Lions for New South Wales B in 1989. He also made 3 appearances for Leicester during the 1991/92 season in England. He retired to concentrate on a career as a teacher and school principal.

Coaching career

Early coaching career

In 1994 Eddie Jones gave up his career as a teacher and school principal to coach his former club Randwick. Then he went to Japan where he had brief stints coaching Tokai University, Japan as assistant coach and Suntory Sungoliath.

ACT Brumbies

Jones returned to Australia in 1998 to coach the ACT Brumbies. Jones had a disappointing first season only finishing 10th in the Super 12 his first season in charge; he has since said he was "way out of his depth" in his first season.

However Jones went onto lead the Brumbies into the beginning of their best period of their history, in 2000 the Brumbies were runners up losing the final to the Crusaders, but in 2001 coached them to their first title and the first ever team from outside New Zealand to win the tournament. Notably while with the Brumbies, it was Jones who was credited with discovering George Smith while at a trial for a Rugby League team the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, Smith went on to become one of Australia's greatest players.

Australia

In 2001, he coached Australia A to a win over the touring British & Irish Lions. This success led to him getting appointed as head coach of the Australian national rugby union team, the Wallabies after Rod Macqueen retired. Under Jones, Australia won the 2001 Tri Nations. Australia entered their home World Cup in 2003 as third favourites behind New Zealand and England. They managed to upset the All Blacks in the semi final before losing to England in the final in extra time through a last minute drop goal.

After the World Cup, Jones was awarded a contract to lead Australia through to the 2007 Rugby World Cup, he also had an offer to coach Japan which he turned down.

In 2005, the Wallabies suffered a spate of injuries and lost seven straight games and at the end of the Wallabies European tour had lost eight of their last nine matches, with the scrum in particular struggling. After a 22-24 loss to Wales at the Millennium Stadium, on 2 December 2005 his contract was terminated as the Wallabies head coach. While the Australian Rugby Union had ordered a report into the Wallabies after the season including a review of Jones's position as head coach, it has been speculated that the Wallabies' loss to Wales was why Jones was removed as head coach before the investigation had even begun.

Post Wallabies

Just over a month after Jones was relieved of his position as Wallabies head coach, he signed a three-year deal with the Queensland Reds to take over as head coach after the 2006 Super 14 season. In February 2006 joined Saracens on a consultancy role until the end of the season to help them after they were struggling towards the bottom of the league.

Jones endured a torrid season at the Reds in 2007 who finished bottom of the Super 14 table only managing two wins the entire season. Injury spells meant Jones at times was to do without up to 8 regulars to his starting team, including the loss of influential Wallabies fullback Chris Latham even before the season started. His last match was an away defeat to the Bulls by a Super Rugby record margin of 89 points which led to mounting calls among the media for him to be sacked. His stint at the Reds is by far the least successful of his coaching career and he resigned after just one season in charge. During his time at the Reds he was also fined $10,000 dollars for calling the performance of referee Matt Goddard "disgraceful" and "lacking common sense" after a close 6-3 loss to his former side the Brumbies.

South Africa

Later in 2007, he turned down an approach from Fiji to be a technical advisor to the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, and instead was appointed by Springbok coach Jake White to be the technical advisor of the South African team at the tournament. He was criticised by the ARU Chief Executive John O'Neill for taking up a job to try to help Australia's rivals.

South Africa went on to win the World Cup, and Jones was praised for his role in the success, with former coach Nick Mallett calling the move from White to appoint him a "masterstroke" and credited him with improved backline play by South Africa at the tournament. Jones was an official part of the Springbok coaching team, but because he isn't South African, he was not given a Springbok blazer - instead Jones wore his tracksuit, a condition in his contract with SA Rugby prior to being appointed.

After the World Cup, Jones rejoined Saracens, initially in an advisory role, before taking over the director of rugby role for the 2008/09 season. However he announced he would be stepping down at the end of the season due to "personal reasons" in February, then quit early in March 2009 after disagreements with the board and described the period as "the worst he has had in rugby".

Return to Japan (2009–2015)

After leaving Saracens, Jones rejoined Suntory Sungoliath in Japan. He brought together a strong team bringing in George Smith, Fourie du Preez and Danie Rossouw who he had coached in previous jobs, and coached them to win the Top League title in 2012 winning the final 47–28 against the Panasonic Wild Knights alongside two consecutive All Japan Championship wins.

Following Sir John Kirwan resigning from his post, Jones was appointed to take over in 2012 as Japan national rugby union team head coach and lead the team to the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Jones quickly took the team in a different direction to Kirwan. His first move as the Japan coach was to reduce the number of foreigners}, who had been prominent in the Japan team under Kirwan and to try and encourage the Japanese to play their own style. He also said his goal was to bring Japan up a level, to be among the top 10.

Despite losing all three of his first Pacific Nations Cup matches by narrow margins, in November 2012 Jones coached the side to their first ever wins in Europe, beating Romania and Georgia.

In 2013, Jones led Japan to their sixth consecutive championship win in the Asian Five Nations, where Japan achieved a tournament record score of 121–0 against the Philippines. Japan later lost to Tonga in the opening round of the 2013 IRB Pacific Nations Cup, which was followed by a defeat to Fiji in round 2. Following these matches, Jones coached the Brave Blossoms to a series draw against Wales after narrowly losing the first test 18–22 and winning the second test 23–8. This was the first time Japan had recorded a victory over the Welsh.

On 16 October, he was hospitalised after having a suspected stroke and was released from hospital on 18 October. With the announcement of his release from hospital, it was announced that Jones would miss Japan's 2013 end-of-year rugby union tests against New Zealand, Scotland, Gloucester, Russia and Spain, and former Australia skills coach and current technical adviser for Japan, Scott Wisemantel, would coach Japan in the interim for their 2013 end-of-year rugby union tests.

In 2014, Jones secured Japan's seventh consecutive Asian Five Nations title, before jointly winning the 2014 IRB Pacific Nations Cup with Fiji. Japan won the Asia/Pacific conference with victories over Canada 34–25 and the United States 37–29. In June that year, Japan claimed a 26–23 victory over Italy, which was Japan's tenth consecutive win, a record for a Tier 2 Nation. During the 2014 end-of-year rugby union internationals, Japan lost their series with the Māori All Blacks 2–0, but went on to secure a 18–13 win over Romania. Following this victory, Japan rose to ninth in the World Rankings, their highest ever position and achieved Jones's aim of reaching the top 10 in the world.

In 2015, after securing the 2015 Asian Rugby Championship, Japan suffered three consecutive losses in the 2015 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup. After beating Canada 20–6, they lost to the United States, Fiji and Tonga to finish fourth with just 1 win. Japan later went on to beat Uruguay twice and Georgia in World Cup Warm-up matches. In the 2015 Rugby World Cup, Japan managed an upset win over South Africa with a spectacular last minute try in their first pool match, finishing the match 34–32, an incredible victory with bold determination. However, 4-days later, Japan went down to Scotland 45–10, despite still being in game at half time. A week later, Japan secured a record victory over Samoa, winning 26–5 which guaranteed a top 3 finish for Japan in the pool. In the final match of the pool stage, Japan beat the United States 28–18, which meant Japan became the first ever nation to record three victories in the pool stage, and fail to advance to the knock out stage. That 28–18 victory was Jones' last in charge of Japan.

The Stormers

After the completing his duties at the helm of the Japan national rugby union team at the Rugby World Cup 2015, Jones joined Super Rugby franchise The Stormers in Cape Town. On the 19th of November 2015 only 8 days after joining the Stormers, Jones was signed by England Rugby to become their first foreign head coach by replacing Stuart Lancaster. Due to a break clause in his agreement with the Stormers, the RFU paid a compensation figure £100,000 to release him from his contract. In November 2015 Jones became one of the highest paid head coaches in world rugby.

England

Jones was named as the new England head coach on 20 November 2015. He agreed a four-year deal to become England's first foreign head coach, that would see him lead the English into the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

Jones brought in Steve Borthwick, who also coached Japan with him, from Bristol, and Paul Gustard from Saracens as his assistant coaches. The coaching team led England to their first Grand Slam since 2003, having beaten all their opponents in the 2016 Six Nations Championship. They opened with a 15–9 win over Scotland before seeing out Italy 40–9.

In Jones' first home game, he led England to a 21–10 victory over Ireland, before going onto beat Wales 25–21 a week later - at one point they led the Welsh 19–0, though conceded 3 tries in the second half. England secured the Championship on 13 March when Scotland beat France, which meant England was going into the final round having already secured the title. A 31–21 victory over France in the final game of the 2016 Championship, saw England win their first Grand Slam since 2003.

He then took his English bulldogs and beat the Wallabies down under to take a 2-0 test win with one test remaining.

Coaching statistics

Australia

International matches as head coach

Note: World Rankings Column shows the World Ranking England was placed at on the following Monday after each of their matches

Matches (2001–2005)
Match	Date	Opposition	Venue	Score (Aus.–Opponent)	Competition	Captain	World Ranking
2001
1	28 July	South Africa	Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria	15–20	Tri Nations	John Eales	N/A
2	11 August	New Zealand	Carisbrook, Dunedin	23–15			N/A
3	18 August	South Africa	Subiaco Oval, Perth	14–14			N/A
4	1 September	New Zealand	Stadium Australia, Sydney	29–26			N/A
5	1 November	Spain	Estadio Complutense, Madrid	92–10	End of year tour	George Gregan	N/A
6	10 November	England	Twickenham Stadium, London	15–21			N/A
7	17 November	France	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	13–14			N/A
8	25 November	Wales	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	21–13			N/A
2002
9	22 June	France	Docklands Stadium, Melbourne	29–17	France test series	George Gregan	N/A
10	29 June		Stadium Australia, Sydney	31–25			N/A
11	13 July	New Zealand	Jade Stadium, Christchurch	6–12	Tri Nations	George Gregan	N/A
12	27 July	South Africa	The Gabba, Brisbane	38–27			N/A
13	3 August	New Zealand	Telstra Stadium, Sydney	16–14			N/A
14	17 August	South Africa	Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg	31–33			N/A
15	2 November	Argentina	Estadio Monumental, Buenos Aires	17–6	End of year tour	George Gregan	N/A
16	9 November	Ireland	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	9–18			N/A
17	16 November	England	Twickenham Stadium, London	31–32			N/A
18	23 November	Italy	Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoan	34–3			N/A
2003
19	7 June	Ireland	Subiaco Oval, Perth	45–16	Ireland South Sea tour	George Gregan	N/A
20	14 June	Wales	Stadium Australia, Sydney	30–10	Wales Australasia tour	George Gregan	N/A
21	21 June	England	Docklands Stadium, Melbourne	14–25	England Australasia tour	George Gregan	N/A
22	12 July	South Africa	Newlands Stadium, Cape Town	22–26	Tri Nations	George Gregan	N/A
23	26 July	New Zealand	Telstra Stadium, Sydney	21–50			N/A
24	2 August	South Africa	Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane	29–9			N/A
25	16 August	New Zealand	Eden Park, Auckland	17–21			N/A
26	10 October	Argentina	Telstra Stadium, Sydney	24–8	2003 Rugby World Cup	George Gregan	3rd
27	18 October	Romania	Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane	90–8			3rd
28	25 October	Namibia	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	142–0		Chris Whitaker	4th
29	1 November	Ireland	Telstra Dome, Melbourne	17–16		George Gregan	3rd
30	8 November	Scotland	Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane	33–16			4th
31	15 November	New Zealand	Telstra Stadium, Sydney	22–10			2nd
32	22 November	England	Telstra Stadium, Sydney	17–20 (a.e.t.)			2nd
2004
33	13 June	Scotland	Docklands Stadium, Melbourne	35–15	Scotland test series	George Gregan	3rd
34	19 June		Stadium Australia, Sydney	34–13			3rd
35	26 June	England	Lang Park, Brisbane	51–15	England Australasia tour	George Gregan	2nd
36	3 July	Pacific Islanders	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	29–14	Pacific Islanders tour	George Gregan	2nd
37	17 July	New Zealand	Westpac Stadium, Wellington	7–16	Tri Nations	Nathan Sharpe	2nd
38	31 July	South Africa	Subiaco Oval, Perth	30–26		George Gregan	2nd
39	7 August	New Zealand	Telstra Stadium, Sydney	23–18			2nd
40	21 August	South Africa	ABSA Stadium, Durban	19–23			2nd
41	6 November	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh	31–14	End of year tour	George Gregan	2nd
42	13 November	France	Stade de France, Saint Denis	14–27			3rd
43	20 November	Scotland	Hampden Park, Glasgow	31–17			3rd
44	27 November	England	Twickenham Stadium, London	21–19			2nd
2005
45	11 June	Samoa	Stadium Australia, Sydney	74–7	Mid year tests	Nathan Sharpe	2nd
46	25 June	Italy	Docklands Stadium, Melbourne	69–21		George Gregan	2nd
47	2 July	France	Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane	37–31			2nd
48	9 July	South Africa	Stadium Australia, Sydney	30–12			2nd
49	23 July		Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg	20–33			2nd
50	30 July	South Africa	Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria	16–22	Tri Nations	George Gregan	2nd
51	13 August	New Zealand	Telstra Stadium, Sydney	13–30			3rd
52	20 August	South Africa	Subiaco Oval, Perth	19–22			3rd
53	3 September	New Zealand	Eden Park, Auckland	24–34			3rd
54	5 November	France	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	16–25	End of year tour	George Gregan	4th
55	12 November	England	Twickenham Stadium, London	16–26			5th
56	19 November	Ireland	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	30–14			3rd
57	26 November	Wales	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	22–24			4th

Record by country

Opponent	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	Win ratio (%)	For	Against
Argentina	2	2	0	0	100	41	14
England	7	2	0	5	029	165	158
France	6	3	0	3	050	140	139
Ireland	4	3	0	1	075	101	64
Italy	2	2	0	0	100	103	24
Namibia	1	1	0	0	100	142	0
New Zealand	11	5	0	6	045	201	246
Pacific Islanders	1	1	0	0	100	29	14
Romania	1	1	0	0	100	90	8
Samoa	1	1	0	0	100	74	7
Scotland	5	5	0	0	100	164	75
South Africa	12	4	1	7	033	283	267
Spain	1	1	0	0	100	92	10
Wales	3	2	0	1	067	73	47
TOTAL	57	33	1	23	058	1698	1073

Honours

• Rugby World Cup / Webb Ellis Cup
  • Runners-up: 2003
• Tri Nations Series
  • Winners: 2001
  • Runners-up: 2002, 2003, 2004
• Bledisloe Cup
  • Winners: 2001, 2002
• Puma Trophy
  • Winners: 2002

• Cook Cup
  • Winners: Jun 2004, Nov 2004
• Trophée des Bicentenaires
  • Winners: 2002, Jul 2005
• Hopetoun Cup
  • Winners: June 2004, Nov 2004
• Lansdowne Cup
  • Winners: 2003, 2005

Japan

International matches as head coach

Note: World Rankings Column shows the World Ranking Japan was placed at on the following Monday after each of their matches

Matches (2012–2015)
Matches	Date	Opposition	Venue	Score (Jap.–Opponent)	Competition	Captain	World Ranking
2012
1	28 April	Kazakhstan	Central Stadium, Almaty	87–0	Five Nations	Toshiaki Hirose	14th
2	5 May	UAE	Level-5 Stadium, Fukuoka	106–3			14th
3	12 May	South Korea	Seongnam Stadium, Seoul	52–8			14th
4	19 May	Hong Kong	Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	67–0			14th
5	5 June	Fiji	Mizuho Rugby Stadium, Nagoya	19–25	Pacific Nations Cup	Toshiaki Hirose	15th
6	10 June	Tonga	Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	20–24			16th
7	17 June	Samoa	Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	26–27			16th
8	10 November	Romania	Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest	34–23	End-of-year tour	Toshiaki Hirose	15th
9	17 November	Georgia	Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi	25–22			15th
2013
10	20 April	Philippines	Level-5 Stadium, Fukuoka	121–0	Five Nations	Toshiaki Hirose	15th
11	27 April	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Football Club Stadium, Hong Kong	38–0			15th
12	4 May	South Korea	Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	64–5		Takashi Kikutani	15th
13	10 May	UAE	The Sevens Stadium, Dubai	93–3			15th
14	25 May	Tonga	Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium, Kanagawa	17–27	Pacific Nations Cup	Takashi Kikutani	15th
15	1 June	Fiji	Churchill Park, Lautoka	8–22			15th
16	8 June	Wales	Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium, Osaka	18–22	Wales test series	Takashi Kikutani	15th
17	15 June		Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	23–8		Toshiaki Hirose	15th
18	19 June	Canada	Mizuho Rugby Stadium, Nagoya	16–13	Pacific Nations Cup	Toshiaki Hirose	14th
19	23 June	United States	Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	38–20			14th
20	2 November	New Zealand	Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	6–54	End-of-year tour	Toshiaki Hirose	15th
21	9 November	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh	17–42			14th
22	15 November	Russia	Eirias Park, Colwyn Bay, Wales	40–13			14th
23	23 November	Spain	Estadio Nacional Complutense, Madrid	40–7			14th
2014
24	3 May	Philippines	Eagles Nest Stadium, Laguna	99–10	Five Nations	Michael Leitch	13th
25	10 May	Sri Lanka	Mizuho Rugby Stadium, Nagoya	132–10			13th
26	17 May	South Korea	Incheon Munhak Stadium, Incheon	62–5			13th
27	25 May	Hong Kong	National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo	49–8			13th
28	30 May	Samoa	Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	33–14	mid-year test	Michael Leitch	12th
29	7 June	Canada	Swangard Stadium, Burnaby	34–25	Pacific Nations Cup	Michael Leitch	11th
30	14 June	United States	StubHub Center, Carson	37–29			10th
31	21 June	Italy	Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	26–23	2014 mid-year test	Michael Leitch	10th
32	15 November	Romania	Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest	18–13	End-of-year tour	Michael Leitch	10th
33	23 November	Georgia	Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi	24–35		Kensuke Hatakeyama	11th
2015
34	18 April	South Korea	Namdong Asiad Rugby Stadium, Incheon	56–30	Asian Rugby Championship	Kensuke Hatakeyama	11th
35	2 May	Hong Kong	Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	41–0			11th
36	9 May	South Korea	Level-5 Stadium, Fukuoka	66–10			11th
37	23 May	Hong Kong	Aberdeen Sports Ground, Hong Kong	0–0		Ayumu Goromaru	13th
38	18 July	Canada	Avaya Stadium, San Jose	20–6	Pacific Nations Cup	Ayumu Goromaru	12th
39	24 July	United States	Bonney Field, Sacramento	18–23		Kensuke Hatakeyama	13th
40	29 July	Fiji	BMO Field, Toronto	22–27		Michael Leitch	14th
41	3 August	Tonga	Swangard Stadium, Burnaby	20–31			15th
42	22 August	Uruguay	Level-5 Stadium, Fukuoka	30–8	2015 RWC warm-ups	Michael Leitch	14th
43	29 August		Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo	40–0			14th
44	5 September	Georgia	Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester, England	13–10			13th
45	19 September	South Africa	Falmer Stadium, Brighton, England	34–32	2015 Rugby World Cup	Michael Leitch	11th
46	23 September	Scotland	Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester, England	10–45			12th
47	3 October	Samoa	Stadium mk, Milton Keynes, England	26–5			11th
48	11 October	United States	Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester, England	28–18			10th

Record by country

Opponent	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	Win ratio (%)	For	Against
Canada	3	3	0	0	100	70	44
Fiji	3	0	0	3	000	49	74
Georgia	3	2	0	1	067	62	67
Hong Kong	5	4	1	0	080	195	8
Italy	1	1	0	0	100	26	23
Kazakhstan	1	1	0	0	100	87	0
New Zealand	1	0	0	1	000	6	54
Philippines	2	2	0	0	100	220	10
Romania	2	2	0	0	100	52	36
Russia	1	1	0	0	100	40	13
Samoa	3	2	0	1	067	85	46
Scotland	2	0	0	2	000	27	87
South Africa	1	1	0	0	100	34	32
South Korea	5	5	0	0	100	300	58
Spain	1	1	0	0	100	40	7
Sri Lanka	1	1	0	0	100	132	10
Tonga	3	0	0	3	000	57	82
United Arab Emirates	2	2	0	0	100	199	6
United States	4	3	0	1	075	121	90
Uruguay	2	2	0	0	100	70	8
Wales	2	1	0	1	050	41	30
TOTAL	48	34	1	13	071	1913	785

Honours

• Asian Five Nations/Asian Rugby Championship
  • Winner: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
• World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup
  • Winner: 2014

England

International matches as head coach

Note: World Rankings Column shows the World Ranking England was placed at on the following Monday after each of their matches

Matches (2016–present)
Matches	Date	Opposition	Venue	Score (Eng.–Opponent)	Competition	Captain	World Ranking
2016
1	6 February	Scotland	Murrayfield, Edinburgh	15–9	Six Nations	Dylan Hartley	7th
2	14 February	Italy	Stadio Olimpico, Rome	40–9			6th
3	27 February	Ireland	Twickenham, London	21–10			6th
4	12 March	Wales	Twickenham, London	25–21			5th
5	19 March	France	Stade de France, Paris	31–21			4th
6	29 May	Wales	Twickenham, London	27–13	Mid-year test	Dylan Hartley	4th
7	11 June	Australia	Lang Park, Brisbane	39–28	Australia test series	Dylan Hartley	3rd
8	18 June		Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Melbourne	23–7		Dylan Hartley	2nd
9	25 June		Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney	–
10	12 November	South Africa	Twickenham, London	–	Autumn internationals
11	19 November	Fiji	Twickenham, London	–
12	26 November	Argentina	Twickenham, London	–
13	3 December	Australia	Twickenham, London	–
2017
14	4 February	France	Twickenham, London	–	Six Nations
15	11 February	Wales	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	–
16	26 February	Italy	Twickenham, London	–
17	11 March	Scotland	Twickenham, London	–
18	18 March	Ireland	Aviva Stadium, Dublin	–

Record by country

Opponent	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	Win ratio (%)	For	Against
Australia	2	2	0	0	100	62	35
France	1	1	0	0	100	31	21
Ireland	1	1	0	0	100	21	10
Italy	1	1	0	0	100	40	9
Scotland	1	1	0	0	100	15	9
Wales	2	2	0	0	100	52	34
TOTAL	8	8	0	0	100	221	118

Honours

• Six Nations Championship
  • Winners: 2016
• Triple Crown
  • Winners: 2016
• Calcutta Cup
  • Winners: 2016
• Millennium Trophy
  • Winners: 2016
• Old Mutual Wealth Cup
  • Winners: 2016
• Cook Cup
  • Winners: 2016

Goldman Sachs

In November 2015 Jones was appointed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to the bank’s advisory board in Japan. The board comprises people from the public and private sector and was created in 2001 to advise Goldman Sachs on business, regulatory, and public policy issues in Japan. Masanori Mochida, president of Goldman Sachs Japan Co stated that “Goldman Sachs will benefit from his unrivaled leadership and his ability to bring together a multi-cultural team”

Other honours

Randwick

• Shute Shield
  • Winner: 1994

Japan (as assistant coach)

• Asian Rugby Championship
  • Winner: 1996

Brumbies

• Super 12
  • Winner: 2001
  • Runner-up: 2000

South Africa (as assistant coach)

• Rugby World Cup / Webb Ellis Cup
  • Winner: 2007

Suntory Sungoliath

• All-Japan Rugby Football Championship
  • Winner: 2011
  • Runner-up: 2009
• Top League
  • Winner: 2012
  • Runner-up: 2011