Eddie's reality check for rugby's biggest rivals

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New Wallabies manager Eddie Jones says it is up to the nationalist squad to item rugby's biggest vantage implicit its home sporting rivals.

Speaking on his caller podcast, Eddie, with David Pembroke, Jones lauded the AFL and NRL arsenic "highly palmy home sports" portion pointing retired rugby's trump card.

"The accidental there... being progressive successful the game, coaching oregon playing overseas, is remarkable," Jones said.

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"And the breadth and the richness of acquisition you tin person done rugby - AFL and NRL can't vie with that. They tin vie successful presumption of the home marketplace precise well, but surely not successful presumption of the planetary market.

"To get kids to spot that accidental the Wallabies person got to beryllium successful, due to the fact that kids request relation models. And those relation models person got to travel from the Australian broadside playing well."

Jones is simply a immense advocator of learning from different sports and applying lessons to rugby.

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He regularly uses league coaches arsenic his assistants and has adjacent floated the thought of moving successful the NRL 1 day.

Jones felt rugby successful Australia had possibly been "a small spot detached from the assemblage and that's 1 of the things we've got to look at."

He reiterated his content that the Wallabies could triumph the Rugby World Cup this twelvemonth contempt their existent ranking of sixth down Ireland, France, New Zealand, South Africa and England.

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"There's a clump astatine the apical which is antithetic successful satellite rugby, due to the fact that we've usually had New Zealand ahead," Jones said.

"It's similar coming retired astir the location crook successful the Melbourne Cup, they'd beryllium 3 oregon 4 legs successful beforehand and everyone other would beryllium nether the whip chasing.

"And present we've got this clump of teams coming implicit the emergence and whoever tin footwear from present connected has got a large accidental and there's nary crushed wherefore it can't beryllium us.

"The lone vantage we person is learning quicker than the opposition. There's nary caller technology, there's nary caller whiz bang mode to to amended preparation. It's each astir who tin larn the astir truthful you tin find retired the things that marque the astir difference."

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