Jones drops major Cooper World Cup clue

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Wallabies manager Eddie Jones says injured playmaker Quade Cooper remains a beardown contender for enactment astatine the Rugby World Cup this year.

Cooper ruptured his Achilles tendon successful past year's Rugby Championship Argentina.

In caller weeks, the 34-year-old has begun moving and kicking goals again, posting his advancement connected societal media.

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Jones was asked connected ABC's Offsiders programme whether Cooper was inactive a enactment contender.

"Yeah I deliberation so. He's recovering well. I had a speedy chat to him successful Brisbane," helium said.

"He looked afloat of beans, he's going backmost to play for his nine successful Japan, Kintetsu, who aren't doing excessively well. They haven't won a game, truthful they request a spot of Quade magic.

"So that'll get his assurance back, get them to triumph a fewer games, and we'll spot wherever helium tin instrumentality america successful the World Cup."

Jones added that helium would request extent astatine five-eighth - portion hinting a acceptable Cooper could beryllium the front- unner, arsenic helium was nether Dave Rennie.

"We volition request to person 3 10s astatine the World Cup, Quade could beryllium 1 of them, and the different 2 spots are wide open."

A imaginable signifier usher for Australia's occurrence astatine the World Cup is however its Super Rugby Pacific teams fare against the New Zealand sides.

The Brumbies stay the lone Australian squad to triumph 2 from 2 this play portion the Rebels gave the Hurricanes a scare successful Super Round.

"We've got to bushed them. That's not bully capable for us," Jones said of the Rebels loss.

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"We request to bushed the New Zealand sides. The Rebels, they hung successful the game, they could person got blown close out. At 1 stage, they looked similar they were going to get blown out.

"You request to commencement the crippled with that strength against the New Zealand sides.

"You can't fto them get connected top. That's what we privation to spot going forward. We privation to spot our players dominating the New Zealand players."

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