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http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,...-23217,00.html
BROADCASTER Alan Jones has announced he will be applying for the Australia rugby union coaching position.
Jones told a press conference that discussions with Queensland Rugby Union chairman Peter Lewis had swayed him to become a candidate for the head coach position vacated by John Connolly.
He said he would not expect to be appointed for a four-year term to take in the next Rugby World Cup cycle and believed the position should be reviewed every 12 months.
Jones said he believed the style of rugby played by the Wallabies and throughout Australia needed to be overhauled and that was demonstrated by bottom of the table finishes by Queensland and NSW in the Super 14 competition and Australia's elimination in the quarter-finals of the 2007 World Cup.
He said the national coach had a "massive obligation" to show the game could be played in an entertaining way to bring crowds through the gate.
"That's been our undoing. We need to release our prodigious talent out wide," he said. "I'm responding to the call for change."
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