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Since the calamity in Lyon, almost everyone has had their say about Eddie Jones, the strange post-match press conference where he dodged questions over a report he had interviewed for Japan job ahead of the World Cup, and whether they believe him or not.
Now a UK online casino has asked a body language expert to analyse the statements of Jones and he’s convinced Jones was telling porkies when asked by The Roar if he had interviewed with the Japanese.
Speaking to Genting Casino, Darren Stanton – who calls himself tvhumanliedetector on Instagram, says he believes Jones did hold talks with Japan and that Australia captain Porecki feels this has disrupted their World Cup.
“It appears to me that Eddie Jones is not being honest in his press conference and I do believe that he has had an interview with Japan,” Stanton said.
“There’s a hesitancy when he’s first asked the question about Japan, he takes a small half-breath and then his blink rate goes bizarre. A blink rate is linked to a shift in emotion and we change our emotions significantly when we lie. This tells me that he has had an interview with Japan.
“His eyebrows are up and his eyes are wide, which is a sign of fear. He’s afraid he’s been rumbled and that his deception has not been bought. He shakes his head when he answers in the affirmative, which is contradictory and the language he uses is ‘lying by admission’, which means he’s skirting over it and essentially saying ‘no comment’.
“There’s about three or four red flags throughout his answers. If he hadn’t had engaged in an interview with Japan, then it would be like an instant ‘no, I haven’t’, or something clear like that, but he’s very deflective and resorts to ‘parroting’. ‘Parroting’ is where you repeat a series of short statements or you mirror language used by an interrogator as you don’t have the time to think of a plausible response so you resort to this kind of language in an attempt to hide the truth.”
World Cup-winning Kiwi coach Steve Hansen has been doing the rounds talking up Eddie Jones in the past few days.
But one statement really stood out. Hansen has offered to play a role in the Rugby Australia review of the World Cup flop, which will inevitably spend a chunk of time analysing the performance of his great mate Eddie.
RA can probably spare themselves some time and listen to his media interviews.
“I’d consider helping a review of Australian rugby,” Hansen told News Corp. “I’d consider doing that, because it’s only going to make New Zealand rugby stronger if Australian rugby is stronger.
“I wouldn’t put on a tracksuit or join the team, but the game is bigger than all of us, and we need Southern Hemisphere rugby to be strong. At the moment it probably isn’t as strong as it should be.”
Hansen spent time in the Wallabies camp before the World Cup and was, predictably, positive about Jones and especially his decision not to select some of the old guard for France.
“We can argue until we’re blue in the face about selections, but personally I think you could have taken whoever you wanted to that tournament and the result would have been the same,” Hansen said. “Maybe marginally better results, but probably the same results, and that’s because of the problems that are happening in Australian rugby.”
On Sunday after the game Jones said Rugby Australia had deep seated issues that needed fixing.
England coach Eddie Jones (left) and New Zealand coach Steve Hansen on the pitch after the 2019 Rugby World Cup Semi Final match at International Stadium Yokohama. (Photo by David Davies/PA Images via Getty Images)
Hansen’s solution would be to merge a Brumbies and Rebels merger.
“I’ve always felt (five Australian Super Rugby teams) is too many,” he said. “Australian rugby was really strong when there were three.
“I understand you’ve gotta develop the game and create content for TV, but I think you maybe amalgamate the Brumbies and the Rebels, which would be tough on the Brumbies, because they’ve been very successful.
“But for the betterment of Australian rugby, you need to make it harder to get a contract. You need to work harder to get it and not spread the resources so thin.”
Wales star No.10 said he felt sorry for some of the Wallabies players after his team handed out a record 40-6 sheallacking in Lyon.
Although Biggar lasted just 11 minutes due to a pec injury, his replacement Gareth Anscombe was superb as a replacement as the Welsh held Australia scoreless in the second half.
“While it’s great to be on the winning side, I felt a bit for some of the Australians. They’re in a difficult spot as a team,”said Biggar in the Daily Mail.
“They’re in a transition period and they’ve got a few issues. I spoke to Carter Gordon after the game and said you’ve just got to ride this out and better days will come.”
Biggar also had kind words for Eddie Jones after he was booed by the crowd during the game – an occurence that’s happened in each of Australia’s matches..
“I didn’t see Eddie Jones after the match but I didn’t like the way he got booed every time he was on camera. At the end of the day he’s a human being,” said Biggar.
“Sometimes he doesn’t help himself but the stick he’s getting is a bit over the top. He’s a big character and I feel for him. We want people to have personalities but as soon as things go wrong then those personalities get jumped on.
” It feels like a bandwagon. I’m not saying Eddie’s a saint but some of the flak he’s getting is unfair. I didn’t like the reaction.”
Carter Gordon. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
France centre Arthur Vincent is adamant the hosts have the players to take up the leadership role of injured skipper Antoine Dupont at the Rugby World Cup.
Influential halfback Dupont sustained a facial fracture in last week’s record 96-0 win over Namibia, putting another massive dent in French hopes of winning a first world title after the earlier loss of five-eighth Romain Ntamack.
Namibia captain Johan Deysel has been suspended for six games for the dangerous head-on-head tackle.
The panel “categorised the act of foul play as being at the top end of the scale of seriousness of offending, having regard to the degree of recklessness involved in the offending, the vulnerability of the victim player and the significant injury to him.”
France’s coaching staff have “no doubts” Dupont will be available to play in the quarter-finals.
The 26-year-old Toulouse player is due to report for training on Sunday, having undergone successful surgery on the night of the match.
“His mere presence is important,” Vincent told reporters at the team camp in Aix-en-Provence on Tuesday. “If we have him with us on our video sessions and in training, he’ll have things to say, he’ll bring his expertise.
“He will return for training on Sunday. Friday and Saturday are our rest days, he will have the time to return in this period of time.
“I have no doubts about his ability to play in the quarter-final. I think it is reasonable to say that. He is our captain, he’s the best player in the world.
“But we’ve already been through those kind of situations, unfortunately. We’re solid as a group, we’ve experienced that before.
“Things will come naturally. There is not only one captain, we have a group of leaders who have been working together for the last four years.
“All the players know their roles and bring something to the table.”
While Maxime Lucu or Baptiste Couilloud will replace Dupont in the No.9 shirt, flanker Charles Ollivon will return to the captaincy he held for two years from 2020.
Antoine Dupont. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)
“He was our captain when we started this cycle,” Vincent said.
“He’s got this natural leadership, he knows when he has to speak, when to insist on certain aspects.”
France’s final Pool A match is against Italy in Lyon on October 6 but thoughts of the quarter-finals were triggered when their likely opponents, South Africa and Ireland, played an epic Test last weekend.
“We had to watch this, of course,” Vincent said of Ireland’s 13-8 win.
“It was a very tough match, very competitive. It was a huge match. South Africa could have won it as well.”
Prop Reda Wardi also enjoyed the match but was not perturbed about the prospect of facing the Springbok pack nor the so-called ‘bomb squad’ of replacements they have on the bench.
“We know they have a huge forward pack,” he said. “When they go for a seven-one bench split, you can expect that they want to bring physicality.
“They are high-level rugby players but not supermen.”
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