No decisions, just gin and tonic: Eddie Jones slams World Rugby meeting

200 key rugby figures from around the globe met in London last week to discuss the future of the sport, but the news was that there was effectively no news.

A World Rugby statement suggested there was an agreement that the sport on the field was in a good place, with no new law amendments set to be trialled globally over the next year.

Elsewhere, there was not an update given on the global season discussion, which was also a topic of conversation at the event.

"It's a joke mate. The game needs to get sorted out, we can all see that, but because they had so many people in a room in so many different areas, they couldn't come to a decision on anything," Jones told the Rugby Unity podcast.

"They all hold hands at the end, have a gin and tonic, so it's all good."

Fellow former Wallabies head coach Ewen McKenzie agreed, suggesting it might have saved time, money and energy not to have it at all.

"It's hard to know what to say really. We could have written that and saved the 200 flights and the 200 hotel rooms," McKenzie said.

"It's the same broad brush statement you would make anyway. They would just say that anyway. 'The game's in good shape'; of course they're going to say that, otherwise they're doing a bad job.

"The fact that they flipped it across to commercial and fan stuff, that's not even their charter. It's about the game itself I would have thought, they shouldn't be talking about commercial.

"They should be talking about the actual specifics of the game and whether they can make it better."

As McKenzie alluded to, the supporters have become a key part of World Rugby's target as they look to "better explain, sell and celebrate" the sport, but Jones insists that it is not part of their remit.

"I think we predicted this at the start, nothing's come out. It's like their strategic plan," the Japan head coach said.

"The whole organisation is incapable of making decisions about the game, the way it's structured. It's not the personnel, it's not the people, it's the way it's structured, and it's just a continuation of it.

"World Rugby's not about fans, World Rugby's an old man's society to enforce the charter of the game. The fans, that's all for the member unions to look after and they all look after that differently.

"Everyone's got a different way to do it so it just seems like we're wasting our time talking about it, wasting our time even discussing it.

"The whole thing was as we predicted; a waste of time. At least they've done a whirl, they're consistent in that they do a waste of time really well."