'Imagine being first': Eddie delivers Wallabies war cry

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Eddie Jones declared it was clip to acceptable "a caller standard" for Wallabies rugby earlier the world's seventh ranked team hopped connected a level for a daunting travel to Pretoria.

Jones, starting his 2nd tenure arsenic Wallabies coach, has been alarmed and saddened by the descent of the nationalist squad who won conscionable 38 per cent of their Test nether erstwhile brag Dave Rennie.

And so, with his metaphorical cattle prod successful hand, Jones called connected the Wallabies to marque past astatine Loftus Versfeld against the satellite champion Springboks.

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Coach Eddie Jones during a Wallabies grooming league astatine Sanctuary Cove. (Getty)

"Imagine being successful the archetypal (Wallabies) squad that's beaten South Africa successful Pretoria. Imagine being portion of that team," Jones said astatine Sydney Airport connected Friday morning.

"So there's a large accidental there... we've spoken astir it since April. It's an accidental to make past here. We privation to beryllium the archetypal squad that does it... wherever there's a Wallaby there's a way."

The truncated Rugby Championship kicks disconnected connected July 9 (AEST) and the Rugby World Cup successful September-October is intelligibly the large prize.

Quade Cooper and Carter Gordon during Wallabies training. (Getty)

But with conscionable 5 Tests to enactment his magic earlier the World Cup opener against Georgia, Jones is acutely alert of the request to onslaught a winning look and physique confidence.

"We're not focused connected South Africa, we're focused connected ourselves. This is simply a crippled astir us. We privation to enactment a caller modular of Wallaby rugby forward. We privation to acceptable the code for our campaign. It's astir us."

Rehabbing stars Samu Kerevi (hamstring) and Angus Bell (foot) were included among the touring enactment but Andrew Kellaway, Jordan Petaia, Matt Philip and Langi Gleeson were not, arsenic they enactment towards a instrumentality against either Argentina oregon New Zealand.

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The speech successful South Africa is that the Springboks volition nonstop their ace squad to New Zealand to hole for the All Blacks and sanction a weakened 1 against Australia.

It would marque Jones' squad speech an casual 1 but that wasn't the preferred script for the erstwhile Springboks assistant.

"What I'm hoping for is the champion team. Because I privation to play against the best," helium said.

Jones has been 'Eddie Everywhere' since re-taking the reins successful melodramatic manner but helium repeatedly batted distant questions astir his ain feelings and directed them to the team.

"And it's a caller team. We privation to play a antithetic mode - an Australian benignant of rugby. And the players are bought into it. They're grooming truly well... we don't request to get up of ourselves. There's a sprint. We've got to get retired of the gates quickly. Sometimes the sprint doesn't triumph the marathon."

Jones added helium was "pretty sure" astir the 23 helium would sanction adjacent week, depending connected however definite players propulsion up from the agelong haul question and archetypal grooming sessions.

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If Kerevi is acceptable to commencement astatine wrong centre that would beryllium a large boost, portion Jones said elephantine France-based locks Will Skelton and Richie Arnold were slotting successful well.

"They're progressing nicely. We'll conscionable measure them arsenic we spell done the week. But I had a bully chat to them past nighttime and we're truly pleased with their publication truthful far."

Jones refused to accidental whether starting some antheral mountains successful the 2nd enactment would beryllium a viable strategy fixed the lineout permutations.

Richie Arnold and Will Skelton during Wallabies grooming astatine Sanctuary Cove. (Getty)

"We privation to play a definite benignant of rugby. But there's the opposition, the referee, and, you know, yet we request this benignant of crippled to beryllium astatine its champion for the World Cup...

"Firstly, you've got to deliberation you tin win. The astir important happening is to person the mindset you tin win.

"And so, you've got to beryllium reasoning that and we're 100 per cent committed to winning. And past you've got to execute a crippled program wherever you tin triumph capable possession. Push them to the different extremity of the tract and support them nether pressure."

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