‘England training spied on’ – Eddie Jones

England head coach Eddie Jones has claimed his team were spied on during a training session ahead of Saturday’s Rugby World Cup semi-final against New Zealand.

Jones revealed that someone was filming his team from an adjacent apartment block overlooking their training ground on Tuesday.

He said it was obvious from the start of the session that they were being filmed from the building.

“There was definitely someone in the apartment block across from the training ground filming, it might have been a Japanese fan,” Jones said.

“We knew from the start that they were filming and it doesn’t change anything we do.”

He did not send security to investigate the matter, however.

“Don’t care, mate. Don’t care,” Jones said when asked of his decision to not try and halt the filming.

“We have two security guards – Prince Harry’s… and the ex-Prime Minister’s. Only those two. Lovely blokes.”

Grafting hard.

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He joked that he would be spying on the All Blacks’ training session.

“We have got someone there (at New Zealand training) now, mate,” Jones said with a laugh.

Jones admitted to spying on rival teams in the past but said he the last time he did that was in 2001 because it’s not worth it.

“Everyone knows what everyone else does. There’s no surprises in world rugby anymore,” added Jones.

“We used to do it [secretly film opposition training sessions]. I haven’t done it since 2001. There’s no need.

“You just don’t need to do it anymore. You can watch everyone’s training on Youtube. There’s absolutely no value in that anymore.”

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