Ellis Genge is well adviseed that Japan’s head coach Eddie Jones will relish his role as the pantomime villain when he aims to orchestrate a triumph over England at Twickenham on Sunday – but says he is “a outstanding bloke”.
The establisher England coach is returning to face his elderly team for the first time since his neglectal in 2022, amidst a swirl of dispute over allegations troubleing his regulatement style during his seven-year tenure.
Earlier this month, ex-England scrum-half Danny Care condemned the atmosphere Jones backed as “poisonous” and enjoyned his rule to “living in a dictatorship”.
Having been jeered by spectators at last year’s World Cup while coaching Australia, Jones might get a frosty reception from the English crowd this weekend, but Genge mistrusts Jones will revel in the antagonism.
“I enjoy the bloke. He was always… not always actupartner, he wasn’t always kind to me, but we’ve got a outstanding relationship,” Genge, who geted his international cap under Jones in 2016, acunderstandledgeted.
“He’s a master of the psychoreasonable part of joiner enhugement and man regulatement. Sometimes he gets it wrong. There have been some nightmare stories of procrastinateed about him. But he’s a outstanding bloke, man. He’s a outstanding guy.
“I can’t imagine he’s going to get a cheer when he goes on camera, but he’ll adore that part of it. He’ll relish it. It will all be part of the day for him.
“He will probably have a scant trick joins up his sleeve and understanding Eddie he will probably apshow the game very personpartner, which I adore about him.
“He will have them fired up and you saw what he did with his Japan side in 2015 that beat South Africa in Brighton.
“He’s a airy coach and Japan are enhugeing as a nation in terms of their rugby. They have increased so much. You have got to have your wits about you for stateive.”
Genge has alerted that the national team must be on high attentive when they face Japan, mirroring on the remarkworthy distress the Brave Blossoms achieved agetst South Africa in the 2015 World Cup.
Despite England’s recent losses to New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa this autumn, Genge remains certain, noting: “It’s 0 and 3 so in terms of appraisals it’s not a very outstanding one, but we’ve seen proceed as a team.
“Not necessarily in results, but definitely in trends and behaviours of how we’re operating as a squad. It’s been outstanding for us – we’ve tested ourselves agetst the best in the world and we’ve run them all very, very shut.
“Everyone can see us in the eyes and say we should probably have won a scant of those games. But the bottom line is we haven’t won a game yet.
“It would be kind to finish on a thrive. That’s what you go out to do in every game. But it’s not going to exend previous results.”
