Danny Cipriani has accused former England head coach Eddie Jones of appearing like a “horny teenager” in probing into his personal life.
The former fly half endured a generally tough relationship with Jones, with Cipriani incomes solely a handful of caps beneath the Australian regardless of spectacular membership type.
In his soon-to-be printed autobiography, Who Am I?, the 35-year-old opens up on his dealings with Jones, recalling one dialog after he had been picked for an early summer time coaching camp in Bagshot shortly after being omitted for the coach’s first Six Nations marketing campaign.
Cipriani had lately damaged up with tv presenter Kirsty Gallacher, and claims that Jones instantly quizzed him on the connection.
“It’s May 2016, and Eddie’s picked me for a three-day training camp at Pennyhill Park,” Cipriani mentioned in his memoir, serialised in The Times.
“We’re all out for dinner on day one, I’m sitting at the end of the table and Eddie comes and sits next to me.
“The first words out of his mouth are, ‘Mate, doesn’t Kirsty Gallacher live around here? Haven’t you shagged her? What’s she like?’
“I’ve just split up with Kirsty, after a short relationship, and it’s not something I want to talk to my head coach about, or anyone else for that matter. Eddie keeps pecking, like a horny teenager, and in the end I tell him straight, “Eddie, I don’t want to talk about this, it’s making me uncomfortable.’”
Cipriani was a bit-part determine beneath Jones, whose seven yr tenure in command of England ended final December.
The playmaker, thought of one of many brightest attacking skills of his technology, began solely as soon as for his nation beneath the top coach, engineering a 3rd check win in South Africa in 2018.
And Cipriani feels that Jones might have executed extra to attempt to perceive his character.
“After leaving me out of his squad for the 2016 autumn internationals, Eddie says I’m only happy being No 1, the main man, insinuating I’d be disruptive if I wasn’t in the starting XV,” Cipriani continues in his e book.
“Owen Farrell’s injured, so is his Saracens understudy Alex Lozowski, who left Wasps after I signed, is picked ahead of me. Eddie has had two conversations with me, the first when he pulled apart my man-of-the-match display against France, the second when he wanted to know who I’d been shagging.
“If he really got to know me, he’d realise I’d happily sit on the bench for England. I can only conclude that Eddie doesn’t want to understand, that’s it’s more convenient and easier for him to judge me on my past.”
Jones will coach Australia on the 2023 Rugby World Cup, which begins in Paris on Friday 8 September.
