Jones signs AFL guru for new Wallabies role

Eddie Jones' penchant for near tract hires has continued with the summation of AFL guru David Rath to his Wallabies staff.

Rath joins the Wallabies with the funny occupation rubric of 'learning co-ordinator' arsenic Jones plots glory astatine this year's Rugby World Cup.

Rath has astir precocious moving with St Kilda successful assorted precocious show roles including caput of football.

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Hawthorn adjunct manager David Rath compares notes with Alistair Clarkson successful 2009. (The Age)

He was antecedently a subordinate of Hawthorn's unit during a aureate epoch of premierships successful 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

"David has worked with the champion coaches successful the AFL and volition bring a accomplishment acceptable that volition assistance assistance our learning environment," Jones said.

The Wallabies person besides secured Neal Hatley arsenic their caller scrum coach, replacing Petrus du Plessis.

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Steve Borthwick, Neal Hatley, Eddie Jones and Paul Gustard. (Getty)

Hatley is currently Bath's forwards manager and worked nether Jones successful England's tally to the 2019 World Cup final.

He volition articulation the Wallabies successful May.

"I'm honoured to articulation Eddie and the Wallabies successful what's a monolithic twelvemonth with the World Cup conscionable implicit 5 months away," Hatley said.

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"While my absorption is present with Bath astatine the moment, I cognize there's plentifulness of imaginable wrong the playing radical successful Australia and I'm looking guardant to maximising that erstwhile I statesman the role."

Jones added: "It's large to person Neal and David connected committee with the Wallabies. Neal's a manager with a tremendous magnitude of acquisition and knows what's required to beryllium palmy astatine planetary level."

Jones has already locked successful NRL large Brett Hodgson arsenic his defence coach.

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