Jones has had to manage the reaction of the players to Booth’s departure.
“They’ve reacted how you’d expect,” said Jones.
“We’ve slowly tried to turn our focus to the game.
“There’s been a little moment of contemplation of what it might mean for them in the short-term, what it might mean for the team and what they might need to pick up between now and the end of the year with us not having Toby in the room.”
Jones will have an added workload initially with flanker Justin Tipuric continuing the final year of his playing career before retiring and becoming defence coach for the 2025-26 season.
“There’ll be a bit of a spike in workload, with one coach down in the building,” said Jones.
“I’m passionate about Justin finishing his playing career and not coming over to the coaching career early because of what has happened.
“It’s important to me he stays in the playing role and almost becomes the coach within the team.
“I want him to enjoy his last year as a player, give the best account of himself and remember the year positively.”
Jones says he would like to bring in a coach for the rest of the season.
“We are looking at it,” said Jones.
“Because things have happened so quickly, we’ve had a few days to prepare the team to play this fixture against Scarlets.
“But in my own mind, I have been thinking about what that work-flow looks like.
“We’ve got a responsibility as a management group to create the best environment for players, giving them the tools they need to perform.
“Having hands on deck is important. So we will be adding support to the playing group, we’re just not sure what it looks like at the minute.”
