Former captain details phone call in forthcoming bookHartley’s generation ‘crash dummies’ for gruelling calendarThe former
England captain Dylan Hartley has revealed the brutal manner in which his international career was ended by Eddie Jones, who simply told him: “You’re fucked, mate!”
Hartley was Jones’s “foundation captain” at the start of his tenure, holding the
Job for more than two years but made his last England appearance during the 2018 autumn campaign. He soon sustained a knee injury and last featured for club or country that December, missing the 2019 Six Nations, then the
World Cup before eventually retiring last November.