Eddie bombshell to ignite Wallabies' Cup charge

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Morgan Turinui says it would beryllium a "no brainer" to adhd Eddie Jones to the Wallabies brains spot if the erstwhile England manager was keen to travel location for different Rugby World Cup campaign.

England's determination to portion ways with Jones is simply a fascinating crippled twist up of adjacent year's World Cup and Rugby Australia president Hamish McLennan has already rolled retired the invited mat for the instrumentality of a prodigal son.

The cardinal dollar questions are whether Jones is really funny and whether Wallabies manager Dave Rennie felt moving with the 62-year-old was viable and a look for success.

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Former Wallaby Turinui - who played nether Jones - believes it would be.

"A method advisor role, I deliberation it's a spot of a nary brainer," Turinui told Wide World of Sports.

"I similar Dave Rennie, I deliberation he's the close feline for this World Cup campaign. Like the enactment he's done. I deliberation it's a bully coaching staff. And (manager) Chris Webb and (attack coach) Scott Wisemantel person beardown existing relationships with Eddie truthful I deliberation the alignment's determination for a truly bully role.

"The important happening is having existent clarity astir who does what but successful presumption of a winning Wallabies team, I deliberation he's a feline that tin assistance them achieve, assistance them beryllium amended astatine the World Cup. I deliberation it's a spot of a nary brainer."

Jones has led teams to 2 World Cup finals - the 2003 Wallabies, including Turinui, and the 2019 England team.

He besides masterminded Japan's memorable 2015 World Cup campaign, upsetting South Africa, and was an advisor to Jake White erstwhile the Springboks won the 2007 tournament.

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"It's ever hard trying to unwrap Eddie's motivations - a riddle wrapped successful a enigma wrong an enigma," Turinui quipped.

"But I've ne'er seen a amended manager during a game."

Turinui pointed to the illustration of Jones hooking elder England halfback Danny Care aft conscionable 36 minutes successful Sydney this twelvemonth and injecting sparky youngster Jack van Poortvliet, who played a cardinal relation successful the series-clinching win.

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"If helium didn't person the foresight, the insight, the bravery to marque that call, I don't deliberation they triumph that Test," Turinui said.

"He's a superb footy encephalon with decades of experience."

The wisecracking Jones is known arsenic a workaholic with highly precocious standards and a maestro of caput games.

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Rennie presents a much calm demeanour to spell with crisp tactical acumen and a estimation for prioritising tight-knit bonds wrong teams.

Given that the Wallabies aren't precisely flying - ranked sixth successful the satellite - Turinui believes the reward acold outweighs the risk.

"I deliberation they tin beryllium large unneurotic actually," helium said.

"They tin beryllium truly complementary, to beryllium honest. Dave's a feline with large rugby IP himself and he's a aforesaid alert guy. I deliberation he's precise bully astir the environment, pushing guys to beryllium better, but Eddie tin possibly bring a small borderline that possibly they need. Eddie is 1 of the top surviving resources of rugby determination is successful the world.

"Whether each the parties are keen connected that, I don't know, but I deliberation it's a logical 1 that would adhd worth without creating excessively overmuch friction."

Wallabies fable Tim Horan - who worked arsenic a selector with Jones during his clip with Australia - was besides intrigued astir the upside of a imaginable return.

However, Horan besides expressed caution astir whether moving alongside Rennie would beryllium the close acceptable astatine the close time.

"I would accidental yes, perfectly look astatine it, to spot however Eddie could adhd worth with the existent coaching unit that's there," Horan told WWOS.

"But I deliberation the existent coaching unit are doing a large occupation and you tin spot that we're not acold off. We're not acold disconnected doing thing peculiar astatine the World Cup...

"This is not a decision for Hamish McLennan oregon the CEO (Andy Marinos).

"It's got to beryllium corporate - 'Dave, however could it assistance you and would you beryllium unfastened to having immoderate help?' And for Eddie - is determination a relation that helium could fulfil portion reporting to someone?"

Rennie is disconnected declaration aft the World Cup and truthful the different enactment for RA would simply beryllium trying to fastener successful Jones arsenic a replacement for 2024 and beyond arsenic it prepares to big the 2027 World Cup.

"Dave has got to tally the show. He's got to beryllium the boss," Horan said.

"So tin Eddie beryllium a skills manager oregon a method manager underneath Rennie?

"I deliberation it's bully that RA are looking astatine each spot of assets you tin enactment down this squad to springiness them the champion accidental to triumph a World Cup. But for maine it has to beryllium arsenic an adjunct oregon arsenic a skills manager moving nether the caput coach."

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Another erstwhile Wallaby who played nether Jones, Justin Harrison, said the manager had a proven grounds of producing planetary stars "out of mediocrity."

"Which is simply a precise bully trait to person arsenic a manager - to beryllium capable to marque contiguous change," Harrison told WWOS.

"And he's experienced successful antithetic environments with antithetic resources disposable to you - from Australia to Japan to England. Wherever helium goes he's got a proven way grounds of processing talent. He's precise bully astatine getting players to recognize their identity, what they should absorption connected and what they request to beryllium satellite class.

"He tin make players' intelligence capableness to play planetary rugby and alteration their crippled plan. So these are each traits that are charismatic erstwhile a campaigner enters the market.

"But Dave Rennie is inactive the nationalist manager and a precise bully manager successful his ain right.

"What each organisation should bash is research the market. Due diligence connected imaginable candidates. Make definite that they're abreast of marketplace cognition and besides necktie that backmost into what Australia needs."

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