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Selection "mind games" and pre-Rugby World Cup shadiness boxing has some the Wallabies and Springboks camps connected borderline up of their Rugby Championship opener successful Pretoria connected July 9 (AEST).
One happening that is definite is that satellite champions South Africa will beryllium without prima playmaker Handre Pollard, whose calf wounded is apt to regularisation him retired of the full championship, and inspirational skipper Siya Kolisi (knee), who is interaction and spell for the World Cup successful France.
But different than that the Wallabies are uncertain who they volition look astatine Loftus Versfeld arsenic Springboks manager Jacques Nienaber confirmed helium would sanction a abstracted squad to question to New Zealand astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic his Wallabies squad announcement adjacent week.
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"We volition denote the squad arsenic precocious arsenic imaginable due to the fact that we don't privation the absorption to cognize who they indispensable hole for," Nienaber said.
Former Wallabies backmost Morgan Turinui - who volition beryllium successful Pretoria for Stan Sport - expected the Springboks to deviate from the accustomed strategy of playing their 'A' squad astatine home.
"The chat retired of the media implicit determination astatine the infinitesimal is the inverse and sending the beardown squad to New Zealand," Turinui said connected Between Two Posts.
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"There's ne'er been much media accreditation requests retired of the bluish hemisphere than for this Test match, retired of England, it's a sold retired Loftus. You cannot get into the media country - similar it's going to beryllium hugely covered, evidently Rassie (Erasmus, South Africa manager of rugby) and Eddie and those things."
Erasmus' Springboks bushed Jones' England in the 2019 World Cup final.
And Jones was a "specialist" manager for the South Africa squad that bushed England successful the 2007 World Cup final.
"He knows South Africans precise good and he's worked truthful wide astir the satellite to broaden his coaching vision," Erasmus said.
"I ever consciousness that a South African moving with South Africans volition get the champion retired of South Africans and I deliberation an Australian moving with Australians volition get the champion retired of them... Eddie knows the Aussie setup. He has been there. The absorbing happening would beryllium arsenic to wherever his assistants worked due to the fact that they'll bring successful antithetic flavours to the party."
Erasmus had already taken enactment of Jones' accent connected size and power.
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"Some of those centres and wingers that they person are bigger than flankers," helium said.
"Eddie ever plays 1 oregon 2 caput games due to the fact that he's the benignant of feline who tin bash worldly similar that. I deliberation he's got immoderate rugby league guys successful arsenic good and he's got a monolithic coaching staff, but due to the fact that of his experience, helium tin get radical aligned successful a abbreviated abstraction of time. He is the benignant of feline who is not acrophobic of doing things similar that."
Jones raised eyebrows by naming a monolithic "train connected squad" abstracted to his Wallabies squad - on with a rehab radical and 3 "utility" players.
"It's pugnacious to hole to look Australia due to the fact that we're not definite if they'll play with an Eddie Jones oregon Dave Rennie mindset, truthful the cardinal for america is to absorption connected ourselves," Nienaber said.
"We person to beryllium capable to accommodate to immoderate they propulsion astatine america connected the day. I'm not wholly definite however they are moving with their squads. I've seen they person 2 squads with antithetic names, and that 1 squad volition look america and the different stay behind."
The Wallabies person been softly going astir their concern connected the Gold Coast this week earlier flying to South Africa.
Halfback Nic White said it had been a fascinating acquisition successful campy with Jones.
"You perceive the stories of Eddie and plentifulness of past players person been connected podcasts and media and things and you perceive astir it and you get a spot tense and past the cattle prod does travel retired astatine times. He besides cares a lot," White said.
"He's truthful unbelievably motivated. Like each time he's coming successful and everything is astir a winning mindset and getting amended and it's infectious. It truly is."
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The Wallabies person ne'er beaten the Springboks successful Pretoria and White was expecting a "hostile" crowd and a fierce examination, nary substance which players were picked.
The constituent of enigma has been exacerbated by South African teams nary longer featuring successful Super Rugby.
"They're (Pollard and Kolisi) satellite people players, right? But I deliberation they're going to person guys that travel successful and they ever bash that volition assistance and instrumentality those opportunities arsenic well," White said.
"But evidently they're satellite people players that they volition miss. Siya, being astatine the beforehand for rather a portion present arsenic their captain.
"Pollard's been playing immoderate truly bully footy for those who person been watching Leicester.
"They'll person guys that travel successful and they've surely got an individuality astir the mode they play, South Africa, that guys volition travel successful and cognize precisely what's expected of them."
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