Former Balmain Tigers coach and radio legend Alan Jones has announced his retirement and will finish up his highly-successful 2GB morning show at the end of May.

“We are living in the world of coronavirus,” Jones said on his show on Tuesday morning.

“The most repeated statement we hear is ‘we must listen to the experts’. Well, the experts are telling me in no uncertain terms, and not for the first time I might add, ‘continuing with the present workload is seriously detrimental to your health’.

“I have listened to the experts and I am taking this opportunity to indicate to my radio family that I will be retiring from radio at the end of this month.”

Jones coached Balmain between 1991 and 1993 and the Wallabies in the 1980’s.