Eddie Jones’s ‘hit and hurt’ comment shows rugby’s mixed up messaging | Ben Ryan

World Rugby wants to reduce injuries and make the game easy to understand to attract new fans, yet the opposite is happening“Whenever you pick a side you are always looking for the biggest, fastest, most skilful guys who like to hit and hurt people.” Eddie Jones said those exact words after the Italy game. Now I very much doubt he wanted to say he picked players that like to inflict injury and I don’t want to pick one soundbite from a press conference and accuse him of being the devil incarnate, but he said it in the public domain, on the record. Quite apart from how that may get interpreted b…