Mitchell left
Job as defence coach despite signing new deal‘I just wanted to get out of international rugby,’ he saysJohn Mitchell has denied that he abruptly left his role as England’s defence coach after a falling out with Eddie Jones despite signing an extension to his contract just three months before he quit the role.
Mitchell, who has since taken up a coaching role at Wasps, rejected reports that an argument with Jones in the summer over whether he could watch his son Daryl, an international cricketer for
New Zealand, play for Middlesex on a day off had precipitated his departure.