Throughout his coaching career, Eddie Jones has masterminded some of the game\u2019s most memorable moments and shocking results.<\/p>\n
He was the last Wallabies head coach to taste Bledisloe Cup success, reached a Rugby World Cup<\/a> final with Australia, and knocked the All Blacks<\/a> out of the 2019 tournament with England.<\/p>\n He also steered England<\/a> to a Grand Slam Six Nations success in 2016, his first year in charge of the team that crashed out of their home World Cup at the pool stages with team going on to win the Championship the following year.<\/p>\n In club rugby, he won Super Rugby back in 2001 with the Brumbies, and steered Suntory Sungoliath to a Top League.<\/p>\n And perhaps most famously, he led Japan<\/a> to a historic first-ever victory over the Springboks during the 2015 Rugby World Cup pool stages.<\/p>\n Eddie Jones picks his greatest-ever coaching performance<\/p>\n That result is widely regarded as the greatest-ever upset in rugby history, but for Jones, it doesn\u2019t rank as the best-ever performance that he has overseen, nor does the famous win over the All Blacks at the 2019 World Cup in Japan.<\/p>\n Jones was posed the question on the DSPN podcast with Martin Devlin<\/a>: \u201cWas the 2019 victory over the All Blacks the best-ever performance that you have coached? Better than beating South Africa with Japan in 2015?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo mate, 2003 semi,\u201d Jones said, referencing his Wallabies team\u2019s 22-10 victory over New Zealand.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was better, mate and particularly at home in Australia. I can remember the Sydney Morning Herald, my old mate Peter FitzSimons, saying Australia is going to be like rabbits in the headlights tonight, and it was nice. And you remember those things, and when it\u2019s your own country, you go out there, the pressure is on, and New Zealand were expected to win.\u201d<\/p>\n As Jones said above, Australia were clear underdogs heading into the last-four encounter, but he revealed that they had a clear plan on how they were going to depower the All Blacks\u2019 counterattacking strength.<\/p>\n \u201cYou think about that New Zealand side, you know, John Mitchell was one of the greatest architects of counter-attacking play,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had that basketball background, and they were a brilliant counterattacking team, and one of the things we were able to do that night was take that away from them.<\/p>\n \u201cNow we worked out that Carlos kicked about 70% of his kicks to the right-hand side. Even back then, we had sort of a kick return policy of how we were going to bring the ball back and then how we were going to attack.<\/p>\n Rassie Erasmus is already the \u2018greatest coach of all-time\u2019, Springboks don\u2019t need a third World Cup to prove it \u2013 Ex-England forward<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIf you look at that game, the first 20 minutes, New Zealand could have scored once or twice, they\u2019re on our line, Carlos goes for the big play, Sterling Mortlock backs himself, makes a decision, \u2018back me\u2019 and away he goes and there\u2019s the World Cup semi, but I can still remember that game clear as day.\u201d<\/p>\n Devlin added: \u201cPeople also forget that year that Mitchell\u2019s All Blacks put 50 on the Boks in Pretoria and you blokes in Sydney, that was a seismic shock.\u201d<\/p>\n