Eddie's huge call on his new Wallabies roster

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Wallabies manager Eddie Jones says the Australian backline helium has inherited has the imaginable to beryllium the world's best.

But successful the aforesaid enactment Jones warned that endowment volition number for small astatine this year's Rugby World Cup successful France if it's not joined with hard work, strength and cohesion.

The 63-year-old laid retired his roadworthy representation astatine a property league successful Sydney, successful his archetypal week successful the occupation since replacing Dave Rennie connected a bumper 5 twelvemonth contract.

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"What I bash cognize is that our players don't deficiency talent. They don't deficiency talent," Jones said.

"If you did a World XV contiguous connected endowment you'd person a just fewer Australian players successful there. You've conscionable got to look perchance astatine the backline Australia could have, potentially.

"And you're reasoning 'yeah, is determination a amended backline successful the satellite now?' But that doesn't again, you know, arsenic I said that doesn't triumph you Test matches.

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"What wins you Test matches is whether you tally hard to bash that wrong clean, whether you spell backmost implicit your head, to pursuit a kick. And truthful I request to find the close balance."

A imaginable World Cup backline could beryllium Nic White, Quade Cooper, Marika Koroibete, Samu Kerevi, Len Ikitau, Mark Nawaqanitawase and Tom Banks.

Five-eighth remains the biggest caput scratcher, arsenic Rennie's archetypal pick, Cooper, continues his rehab from a ruptured Achilles.

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Jones volition permission nary chromatic unturned successful assessing the merits of the contenders and sanction dropped 2 Waratahs youngsters arsenic being successful the enactment frame.

"At the extremity of the past England tour, I watched (Tane) Edmed and (Ben) Donaldson play against each other, Eastwood v Randwick down astatine Coogee Oval, and some of them person got a batch to similar astir them," Jones said.

"Donaldson played good connected the past tour, he's a young feline coming though and helium looks similar he's got a bully caput connected him. So who knows?

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"And there's large contention there, hopefully we've got Quade coming back, (Bernard) Foley's playing good successful Japan, (James) O'Connor volition beryllium acceptable for the Reds, past you've got (Noah) Lolesio astatine the Brumbies, a young feline whose had immoderate acquisition successful Test rugby.

"So it's going to beryllium competitive, but we're decidedly going to person to determine the hierarchy of 10s... you privation cohesion, peculiarly successful the spine of your team, truthful we'll effort to get to that arsenic rapidly arsenic we can."

Jones' archetypal cardinal calls volition beryllium settling connected his adjunct coaches.

The incumbents are forwards specialists Dan McKellar and Laurie Fisher arsenic good arsenic scrum manager Petrus du Plessis.

The Wallabies were already looking for a caller backs manager aft Scott Wisemantel resigned successful January.

Jones worked with Wisemantel successful England and could perchance effort to twist his limb portion his erstwhile Brumbies protégé, Stephen Larkham, is different enactment successful World Cup year.

"If we triumph the World Cup it changes things for rugby successful Australia," Jones said.

"So our people is to triumph the World Cup, past we'll interest astir what happens aft that.

"To triumph the World Cup, we're going to instrumentality this talented radical of players, who are going to person to enactment unneurotic to marque a squad that has a competitory borderline implicit the remainder of the world. If you look astatine satellite rugby astatine the moment, there's six teams not separated by a cigaret paper. They're truthful tight."

The Wallabies are ranked sixth successful the satellite down Ireland, France, New Zealand, South Africa and England.

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