Eddie Jones must read the Daily Telegraph...Down at the Guinness Premiership launch at the oh so swanky Park Lane Hilton, most of the monotonous merry-go-round was about as entertaining as a rainy weekend in Margate, but praise the lord for Eddie Jones.
A positive spin on the Experimental Law Variations is as rare as an endorsement of Paris Hilton’s pop career - even Barrack Obama would struggle to turn the new laws into gold - and the latest scathing attack on the ELVs has hit harder and deeper than the Titanic plundered into the Atlantic.
Saracens boss, Jones, pointed rugby’s sinking ship to similar mire to cricket’s voyage into reality sports television.
Most of the Guinness Premiership bosses took a somewhat more Tony Blair approach to diplomacy, but Jones launched himself so far off the fence, humpty dumpty didn't fall as fast.
"The important thing is to improve rugby. To judge the ELVs you have to ask 'have they made the game better?"' Jones argued.
"Better does not necessarily mean more entertaining. If you want entertainment, you watch Twenty20 cricket. We don't want rugby to be Twenty20 cricket.
"That has to be the judgment line. These changes have been made with a view to entertainment, not to improving rugby.”
Why couldn’t he just say ‘if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.’