DANNY CARE has revealed that playing for Eddie Jones was like "living in a dictatorship". The former England star earned 101 caps and played under the Australian coach for all seven years of his tenure. Care, 37, announced his retirement from international rugby earlier this year.
He has now released an autobiography, 'Everything Happens for a Reason'. In his book, he has slammed Jones , 64, for his coaching style that left "everyone scared" of him. He told The Times : "When I look back at it.
READ MORE ON SPORT "That’s the sad thing. How can an environment, that should be the best of the best, how can it be like that, when everyone is so scared of the guy at the top that you can’t have a conversation with him? "Any day you look at him wrong or someone says the wrong thing, and he could just blow." The scrum-half insisted that Jones saw players as "dispensable".
He added: "He was so powerful because he knew he had all these lads at his disposal, so many good players that he could get rid of you. Most read in Rugby Union CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO WELCOME OFFERS "It was a luxury he had." Care was exiled from the England team for four years by Jones despite staring in the set-up for three years.
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