Crestfallen Rennie breaks silence after axing

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Former Wallabies manager Dave Rennie has made his archetypal nationalist code since being sacked by Rugby Australia.

Having been slated to pb Australia into the 2023 Rugby World Cup successful France, the New Zealander was fto spell successful favour of Eddie Jones connected Monday.

In a connection issued by the governing assemblage connected Rennie's behalf, the manager expressed his disappointment astatine ending his clip with the squad prematurely.

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"Firstly, I'd similar to convey each of those who person reached retired to (wife) Steph and I implicit the past 48 hours oregon so," said Rennie.

"The enactment has been immense and overmuch appreciated from the much than 500 messages I've received from existent and erstwhile players, coaches, administrators and friends some present and abroad.

"I've loved my clip with the team. They're outstanding young men who are keen to larn and prepared to enactment hard.

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"The unit I worked with during my clip with the Wallabies are immoderate of the champion successful the world and they played a monolithic relation successful creating a prime situation and processing the extent of the playing group.

"I'd similar to peculiarly convey those successful the Australian Rugby assemblage for their enactment of the team implicit the past 3 years and for each the words of encouragement erstwhile we person crossed paths successful schools, connected the grooming tract oregon successful airports astir the country.

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"I'm disappointed I won't beryllium capable to spot retired my declaration successful the mode I agreed to backmost successful 2019 but permission knowing I had the afloat enactment of the playing radical and the staff.

"I surely felt we person made monolithic shifts implicit the past 3 years some connected and disconnected the field, which is disconnected the backmost of a hellhole of a batch of hard enactment enactment successful by bully people.

"I privation Eddie, the unit and the squad each the champion successful what's a monolithic year, with the Rugby World Cup little than 9 months away."

Rennie, the 16th manager successful Wallabies past and lone the 2nd New Zealander aft Robbie Deans, had the worst grounds of immoderate Australian manager successful the 21st century.

The Wallabies won conscionable 12 and drew 3 of the 33 matches nether Rennie.

His 36 percent triumph percent bettered conscionable 1 of his predecessors, Des Connor, who led the Wallabies from 1968–1971 to 2 wins from 12 matches.

With Rennie contracted done to the extremity of 2023, it is expected helium volition spot retired a play of gardening leave.

Jones, meanwhile, volition person conscionable 5 Test matches to get his Wallabies up to velocity up of the Rugby World Cup.

The squad does person a favourable draw, with its toughest duty successful the radical stages being a clash with Wales.

Three of the past 4 encounters person been won by the Welsh.

Australia's excavation besides includes Fiji, Georgia, and Rugby World Cup returnees Portugal who past contested the tourney successful 2007.

Jones is contracted to manager the Wallabies connected a five-year woody done to 2027.

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