{"id":2272,"date":"2023-01-17T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2023-01-17T05:45:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:45:41","slug":"dave-rennie-sacked-as-wallabies-coach-eddie-jones-to-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Dave Rennie sacked as Wallabies coach, Eddie Jones to take over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wallabies coach Dave Rennie has been sacked with immediate effect and former England boss Eddie Jones is set to lead the side at this year&#8217;s World Cup in France.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealander Rennie, former coach of Super Rugby side the Chiefs, was contracted until the end of this year&#8217;s World Cup in France but has a winning record of only 38 percent since taking over after the last edition.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who led the Wallabies to the 2003 World Cup final in his previous stint as Australia coach, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/481251\/i-thought-it-was-coming-jones-says-after-england-sacking\">sacked by England<\/a>\u00a0in December.<\/p>\n<p>He will be head coach of the Wallabies, as well as overseeing the Wallaroos, on a long-term deal until 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Jones previously coached the Wallabies from 2001 to 2005, including taking the team to the Rugby World Cup Final in Sydney in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>As the head coach of England, he had the highest winning ratio of any coach to lead that nation at 73 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his role with the Wallabies, and in a world-first, Jones will also oversee the Wallaroos programme as Rugby Australia pushes forward towards a professional future for the Women&#8217;s XVs game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wallabies coach Dave Rennie has been sacked with immediate effect and former England boss Eddie Jones is set to lead the side at this year&#8217;s World Cup in France. New Zealander Rennie, former coach of Super Rugby side the Chiefs, was contracted until the end of this year&#8217;s World Cup in France but has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}