{"id":286280,"date":"2023-09-04T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=286280"},"modified":"2023-09-04T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:37:00","slug":"eddie-jones-blasts-danny-ciprianis-claims-as-fing-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/rugby-union\/eddie-jones-blasts-danny-ciprianis-claims-as-fing-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Jones blasts Danny Cipriani&apos;s claims as &apos;f***ing nonsense&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ex-England head coach Eddie Jones calls Danny Cipriani&#8217;s claims that he asked about sex life with ex Kirsty Gallacher &#8216;f***ing nonsense&#8217; and says his stories from his book are an &#8216;absurd fabrication&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cipriani claimed Jones asked questions about his ex-girlfriend Kristy Gallacher<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jones denies the conversation with Cipriani ever took place\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The former England boss is preparing Australia for the Rugby World Cup<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eddie Jones has dismissed claims made against him by Danny Cipriani \u2013 that he badgered him with inappropriate questions about his former girlfriend, TV presenter Kirsty Gallacher\u00a0&#8211; as &#8216;absurd&#8217; and &#8216;a fabrication&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The former England head coach, now back in charge of his native Australia, has responded to allegations made in Cipriani&#8217;s autobiography, <span>Who Am I?<\/span> In it, the ex-England fly-half gave an account of a conversation over dinner in 2016, saying: &#8216;Eddie comes over and sits next to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The first words out of his mouth are, &#8220;Mate, doesn&#8217;t Kirsty Gallacher live around here? Haven&#8217;t you sh***ed her? What&#8217;s she like?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve just split up with Kirsty, after a short relationship, and it&#8217;s not something I want to talk to my head coach about, or anyone else for that matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Eddie keeps pecking, like a horny teenager, and in the end I tell him straight, &#8220;Eddie, I don&#8217;t want to talk about this, it&#8217;s making me uncomfortable&#8221;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/12\/75037393-0-image-a-1_1693826807097.jpg\" height=\"421\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eddie Jones (pictured) has dismissed Danny Cipriani&#8217;s claims that he asked inappropriate questions about his ex-girlfriend, the TV presenter Kristy Gallacher\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/12\/75037299-0-image-a-2_1693826857852.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The former England star (right) and Gallacher (left) dated for a short time\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/13\/75039293-12478679-Cipriani_and_Gallacher_pictured_together_before_they_started_dat-m-19_1693829834655.jpg\" height=\"598\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Cipriani and Gallacher pictured together before they started dating at an event back in 2008<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/13\/75037439-12478679-Cipriani_claimed_Jones_allegedly_asked_questions_of_a_sexual_nat-m-13_1693829691145.jpg\" height=\"490\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/13\/75023157-12478679-According_to_Cipriani_s_new_book_he_claims_Jones_to_have_said_Th-a-14_1693829697414.jpg\" height=\"490\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Cipriani claimed Jones allegedly asked questions of a sexual nature about Gallacher<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/13\/75039717-12478679-image-a-20_1693830204760.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the allegations towards him, Jones told Mail Sport it&#8217;s &#8216;f***ing nonsense&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jones is busy preparing his Wallabies squad for a World Cup opener against Georgia on Saturday, but when contacted by Mail Sport, he refuted Cipriani&#8217;s remarks, saying: &#8216;We didn&#8217;t have a close relationship, so I&#8217;m hardly going to engage in a conversation like that with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To be quite frank, it&#8217;s a complete fabrication. We didn&#8217;t select him. When players don&#8217;t get selected, they always have an axe to grind &#8211; we know that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s selling a book, so nothing surprises me when players want to sell books. It&#8217;s absurd. It&#8217;s almost too absurd to talk about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think it&#8217;s very sad for him that he feels he has to make something up to sell his book.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on whether he had ever spoken to Cipriani in any way about Kirsty Gallacher, Jones said: &#8216;I cannot remember that.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And asked if he was upset by the allegations, he added: &#8216;It&#8217;s just f***ing nonsense. If anyone is stupid enough to pay attention to it then good luck to them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jones is notoriously tough on his players and uncompromising in his approach, but he categorically denied speaking to Cipriani about any sexual-related matters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s hardly the sort of language I would use,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s not how I speak to players. In all the years I&#8217;ve coached, there would be very few conversations like that with players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s not to say I haven&#8217;t had a conversation like that, but there would have been very few &#8211; and certainly not with Cipriani.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/12\/75037343-0-image-a-5_1693826958804.jpg\" height=\"481\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The former England boss said he did not have a close relationship with Cipriani<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/12\/75037293-0-image-a-8_1693827015372.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jones dismissed Cipriani&#8217;s allegations as &#8216;complete fabrications&#8217; and &#8216;absolute nonsense&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Over all his years of coaching, Jones has often been antagonistic and confrontational, but he denied ever being accused of inappropriate behaviour such as this before. &#8216;I can never recall it,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And if there was anything, it would have been in the newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve learned to keep an appropriate distance. You don&#8217;t coach for the amount of time that I&#8217;ve coached without keeping the appropriate distance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I get criticised for being too hard &#8211; now someone is trying to make out that I&#8217;m too familiar with the players. Work out what you want me to be!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>His player-coach relationship with Cipriani was known to have been tense and strained, but Jones claimed that the last contact between them had been cordial, in sad circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;I sent him a note when his previous girlfriend committed suicide, to ask if he was alright, just out of courtesy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/04\/12\/75037495-0-image-a-9_1693827058786.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jones is getting the Wallabies ready for their Rugby World Cup opener against Georgia<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12478679\/Eddie-Jones-Danny-Cipriani-Kristy-Gallacher-England.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-England head coach Eddie Jones calls Danny Cipriani&#8217;s claims that he asked about sex life with ex Kirsty Gallacher &#8216;f***ing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eddie Jones blasts Danny Cipriani&amp;apos;s claims as &amp;apos;f***ing nonsense&amp;apos; 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