{"id":295756,"date":"2023-11-01T18:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T18:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=295756"},"modified":"2023-11-01T18:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T18:23:53","slug":"eddie-jones-says-marcus-smith-must-play-no-10-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/rugby-union\/eddie-jones-says-marcus-smith-must-play-no-10-for-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Jones says Marcus Smith must play No 10 for England"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Former boss Eddie Jones says Marcus Smith is not a Test full-back and must play No 10 for England after Steve Borthwick experimented with the fly-half in an unfamiliar role at World Cup<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Harlequins fly-half Marcus Smith was given his Test debut by Eddie Jones\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Smith started in the No 15 shirt in World Cup games with Fiji and Argentina<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jones is in Cardiff ahead of coaching the Barbarians against Wales on Saturday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eddie Jones sent a strong message to his England head coach successor Steve Borthwick, insisting Marcus Smith is not an international full-back.<\/p>\n<p>Smith \u2013 a fly-half by trade who was given his Test debut by Jones \u2013 started in the No 15 shirt in England\u2019s World Cup knock-out games with Fiji and Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Borthwick\u2019s side finished third in France, but Jones believes for Smith and England to continue to develop, he must be picked as a primary playmaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Marcus is 24. He has got a lot of learning to do, but unless he plays he never gets that learning,\u2019 said Jones, speaking in Cardiff ahead of coaching the Barbarians against Wales on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At some stage you have got to take a bit of pain if you play a guy like him. He is a good player, a very good player, but he is not a full-back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/17\/77282169-0-image-a-2_1698860936128.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Smith started in the No 15 shirt in England\u2019s World Cup games with Fiji and Argentina<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That is up to Steve but if you want to develop him as a player of course he has got to play 10.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Up Front with Simon Jordan podcast, Jones added of Smith: \u2018He is reasonably good at club level. He\u2019s not a superstar yet. He\u2019s a promising young player.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At Test level, these instinctive players take time to mature. I think we\u2019ll see over the next two years whether or not Marcus has what it takes to go as far as his potential suggests he can.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018These will be the most formative years of his rugby life if he can stick at it and not end up going to play overseas.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Smith was targeted physically and in the air while playing 15 at the World Cup, but he showed impressive bottle and no little courage. He also set up a try for Ben Earl against Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>But he is a No 10 for his club Harlequins and wants to play there for England too. Captain Owen Farrell is Borthwick\u2019s first choice fly-half but will be 36 by the next World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>After controversially quitting his Australia role after the Wallabies flopped in France, Jones reiterated he had no regrets over his exit less than 12 months into a five-year deal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/17\/77282433-0-image-a-12_1698861281220.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eddie Jones sent a strong message to his successor as England head coach Steve Borthwick<\/p>\n<p>He also ruled himself out of coaching the British &amp; Irish Lions against Australia in 2025. Jones is expected to join Japan in the coming months but refused to confirm if that was the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I had my go with England, I loved coaching England, but I wouldn\u2019t want to be involved in the Lions \u2013 not at all,\u2019 Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving Australia, Jones declared: \u2018Sometimes you have to eat s*** for others to eat caviar.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His comments and use of language saw him widely criticised, with MailSport columnist and England\u2019s World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward describing them as \u2018pathetic\u2019 and \u2018embarrassing.\u2019 Jones responded: \u2018Why should I have any regrets? I don\u2019t have any regrets. I don\u2019t really care.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The disappointing thing for me was I had a vision about what needed to be done (with Australia) and the two parties weren\u2019t able to come to an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t want to work for someone like that again because it\u2019s so hard.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Jones hasn\u2019t always been popular in Cardiff as a former England coach, but he posed for pictures with rugby fans and signed autographs in the Welsh capital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/17\/77282141-0-image-a-1_1698860890124.jpg\" height=\"484\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jones in Cardiff on Wednesday ahead of coaching the Barbarians against Wales on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>He will go up against Wales head coach Warren Gatland once again on Saturday, this time with the Barbarians in a game to honour Alun Wyn Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Former Wales captain Jones will captain the Barbarians against the country of his birth.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Jones said: \u2018I was having breakfast in a cafe in Cardiff with my wife and she said: \u201cThe Welsh people are nice to you, aren\u2019t they?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m not coaching England!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12698939\/Former-boss-Eddie-Jones-says-Marcus-Smith-not-Test-play-No-10-England-Steve-Borthwick-experimented-fly-half-unfamiliar-role-World-Cup.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former boss Eddie Jones says Marcus Smith is not a Test full-back and must play No 10 for England after Steve Borthwick experimented with the fly-half in an unfamiliar role at World Cup Harlequins fly-half Marcus Smith was given his Test debut by Eddie Jones\u00a0 Smith started in the No 15 shirt in World Cup&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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