JAPAN SUSPENDED HEAD coach Eddie Jones for four games and cut his salary for \u201cverbal abuse directed at local officials\u201d during an Australian tour by Japan\u2019s U23 team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Japanese Rugby Football Union say they have taken action against Jones under their disciplinary and ethics regulations. Along with taking an unspecified hit to his salary, Jones will be suspended from head coach duties for six weeks, which covers four games: two Japan Select XV games against Hong Kong China, a Japan XV clash with the Maori All Blacks, and then the Japanese first team\u2019s opening Nations Championship fixture against Italy on 4 July.<\/p>\n
\u201cI accept the disciplinary action of the JRFU relating to the U23 Japan National Team tour of Australia\u201d, said Jones. \u201cSome inappropriate remarks that I made caused discomfort to local match officials and other related parties. I would like to offer my sincere apologies to everyone involved. I deeply regret my behaviour and words and will make every effort to ensure that this doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAPAN SUSPENDED HEAD coach Eddie Jones for four games and cut his salary for \u201cverbal abuse directed at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74272,61,60,582,86133,194295,112],"class_list":["post-446847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eddie-jones","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-nations-championship","tag-naughty-step","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}