Eddie scolds 'smart arse' journo after ugly loss

Wallabies manager Eddie Jones took purpose astatine a "smart arse" South African writer aft a deflating 43-12 Rugby Championship nonaccomplishment to a 2nd drawstring Springboks side.

Before leaving for South Africa, Jones told reporters successful Sydney that helium hoped the satellite champions would sanction a afloat spot squad for his archetypal Test since returning to Australia.

But the Springboks alternatively sat a twelve apical players to question to New Zealand and hole for the circular 2 clash with the All Blacks successful Auckland.

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Eddie Jones astatine a property conference. (Getty)

"Eddie, you expressed your disappointment successful the week that you weren't playing the archetypal prime Springboks side. Is that a spot of alleviation now?" the newsman asked Jones successful Pretoria.

"South Africans are bully astatine winning. You don't person to beryllium a astute arse mate," Jones fired backmost astatine the Loftus Versfeld property conference.

"We were good and genuinely beaten contiguous by a Springboks broadside that aged mate is calling the B team, right? I ne'er knew determination was a Springboks broadside that was called the B team."

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Jones past approached the writer after the property league to scold him further.

"You should person much respect mate. I ne'er said that mate," Jones said.

"I said we ever privation to play the best. Show immoderate respect."

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Australia scored the archetypal and past tries astatine Loftus but conceded 43 points successful betwixt to underline the task Jones faces astatine the commencement of his 2nd spell successful complaint of the Wallabies with a Rugby World Cup looming successful September.

Diminutive winger Kurt-Lee Arendse continued his escaped scoring commencement to planetary rugby with a chapeau instrumentality successful his eighth Test for the Boks.

Leading 17-5 astatine halftime and getting into its stride, South Africa unleashed a ruthless show successful the 2nd half, with Arendse completing his chapeau instrumentality successful the 50th infinitesimal and the Springboks adding 2 punishment tries — which some outgo an Australia subordinate a yellowish paper — and a last people by flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit.

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"We conscionable got beaten to the punch everywhere," Jones told Stan Sport's Morgan Turinui earlier the property league fireworks.

"We got beaten successful the acceptable piece. We got beaten connected the summation line, we got beaten successful the air. And if you don't triumph immoderate of those contests, you cognize it's going to beryllium a agelong time successful the office, which it was for america today."

Australia has mislaid each 8 of its Tests successful Pretoria since the archetypal successful 1963.

Eddie Jones astatine Loftus Versfeld. (Getty)

It was Jones' archetypal Test successful complaint since being fired by England past twelvemonth earlier replacing Dave Rennie with the Wallabies.

"There wasn't excessively galore positives today," Jones conceded.

"Every clip they got an opportunity, they converted it into points."

Kurt-Lee Arendse of South Africa scores a try. (Getty)

But Jones maintained the Wallabies could bounce backmost instantly against Michael Cheika's Argentina in Sydney connected Saturday.

"We've got to place 2 oregon 3 areas and one's surely the consistency of our acceptable piece. Our scrum decidedly needs a continual enactment connected and past we've got to find ways to get implicit the summation line. So we hole those against Argentina and we'll beryllium backmost successful the money."

Marika Koroibete flew down the near helping to enactment Australia into a astonishment 5-0 pb successful the eighth infinitesimal but the visitors were connected the backmost ft for beauteous overmuch the full crippled aft that.

South Africa's Grant Williams jumps arsenic helium avoids a tackle from Australia's Jordan Uelese. (AP)

Carter Gordon came disconnected the seat for his Test debut and marked it with a breakaway consolation effort successful the past minute, acceptable up by a walk from Koroibete.

Between those moments, Australia's battalion didn't person the interaction Jones was hoping for successful matching the Springboks, and recalled 35-year-old flyhalf Quade Cooper hardly touched the shot successful the archetypal fractional and was fixed nary accidental to power thing successful the second.

The large triumph was besides a triumph for South Africa's spot successful extent up of its World Cup rubric defence.

Marco van Staden of South Africa with the ball. (Getty)

Nienaber believed galore of his backup players were bully capable to bushed Australia and helium was proved much than right.

South Africa was uncharacteristically expansive successful the archetypal hr of play, and threw 170 passes wide to Australia's 101 successful an effort to find much successful its arsenal than conscionable acceptable portion dominance and tactical kicking.

But the Springboks battalion did stamp location its dominance astatine the end, adding a 4th done a punishment effort aft Wallabies hooker Dave Porecki pulled a rolling maul down arsenic it reached the tryline.

The 2nd punishment try, and 2nd yellowish for the Wallabies, came erstwhile helping Suliasi Vunivalu knocked down a walk with Arendse poised to people his fourth. - with AP

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