Jones shrugs off added pressure talk

EDDIE JONES has been put on notice by his bosses at the Australian Rugby Union but the Wallabies coach yesterday laughed off suggestions he is under any more pressure than normal.

Jones has presided over Australia’s worst run of results for 36 years and his contract, which runs through to the next World Cup, will be reviewed when the Wallabies return home from their tough European assignment.

ARU chief executive Gary Flowers revealed overnight: “He has a contract until 2007 [but] as with anyone in coaching and business, people aren’t given guarantees for two and three years.”