Jones whacks 'disappointing' Aussie teams

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Wallabies manager Eddie Jones has taken purpose astatine Australia's Super Rugby teams - Brumbies excluded - for not competing hard capable oregon for agelong capable against their ascendant New Zealand rivals.

The 4-0 Brumbies, tally by Jones protege Stephen Larkham, are the wide pick of the Australian harvest and person won some of their games against New Zealand-based opposition - the Blues and Moana Pasifika.

But Jones was acrophobic by what helium saw from the Rebels, Waratahs and Force successful circular 4 arsenic they were beaten by Kiwi opposition.

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"Same thing, they're going to person to enactment harder disconnected the ball," Jones said connected his podcast Eddie.

"You tin lone vie against those New Zealand sides if you enactment harder disconnected the ball. Now, this is not astir talent. It's astir however hard you privation to enactment and however hard you privation to enactment for your teammate.

"So some of those things tin crook those results around. Again for Australian teams, disappointing, not to beryllium capable to spell the afloat play of clip against those Kiwi teams. It's not advice, it's a comment."

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Jones did praise the Rebels for competing hard for an hr against the Chiefs earlier getting blown distant successful a 44-25 loss.

"What we're seeing a batch with the New Zealand sides, and whether it's a New Zealand doctrine astir however they privation to play the crippled astatine the World Cup, they're precise bully astatine keeping the shot retired of tackles oregon putting the shot down you to support the shot going," Jones said.

"And the Chiefs, surely successful this signifier are looking 1 of the strongest teams successful Super Rugby. The Rebels toiled beauteous hard, played with a batch of a batch of fight, and again, that's the benignant of happening you privation to see. You know, they rotation up their sleeves, they're successful the trenches, they're warring hard...

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"As Australian teams, we've got to bash amended against the New Zealand teams. We've got to win. It's lone astir winning and competing is not bully capable and we should ne'er beryllium satisfied with that and we've got to marque definite we find a mode to enactment successful games. And again, it'll travel from moving disconnected the shot harder, to guarantee that we enactment successful the games."

The Waratahs volition get different acerb trial successful Sydney connected Friday nighttime against the pacesetting Chiefs portion the Brumbies person sent an understrength squad to Christchurch to instrumentality connected the defending champion Crusaders.

Jones was pleased successful what he'd seen from the Brumbies, the nine helium led to a maiden Super Rugby rubric successful 2001.

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"Very methodical again. The Brumbies benignant present is beardown set-piece, you know, Stevie's trying to unfastened the crippled up a spot and erstwhile the Canberra teams are strong, the Raiders, with Ricky (Stuart) there, and the Brumbies historically, they've each been truly hard moving teams with a small spot of constituent of difference," Jones said.

"And the constituent of quality successful the Brumbies astatine the infinitesimal is their maul and I cognize Stevie wants to support that maul but besides person much options and I deliberation they're processing rather nicely.

"They've got bully extent successful their squad, the Brumbies, they continually enactment hard to bring young players done and if you look successful the past of Australian rugby implicit the past 30 years, the relation that Laurie Fisher's played successful processing young players down astatine the Brumbies, his quality to manager fundamentals for those players is perfectly outstanding."

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