'Keep praying': Eddie faces music as critics emerge

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Wallabies manager Eddie Jones insists Australia are connected way to equine a competitory Rugby World Cup run contempt another humiliating Bledisloe Cup nonaccomplishment connected Saturday night.

Jones is present 0-3 successful his 2nd coming arsenic Wallabies manager aft New Zealand turned connected the 2nd fractional benignant in a broad 38-7 triumph astatine a packed MCG.

Adding to the symptom were injuries to tighthead props Allan Alaalatoa and Taniela Tupou.

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Brutal stroke arsenic Wallabies skipper carted off

Alaalatoa, who captained Australia successful Melbourne, suffered what Jones described arsenic apt a "serious" Achilles tendon injury, astir surely ruling him retired of the World Cup.

Tupou battled connected manfully earlier succumbing to a achy rib wounded successful the 2nd half.

Australia were competitory aboriginal connected but were incapable to support the rage.

Wallabies manager Eddie Jones astatine Melbourne Cricket Ground. (Getty)

"Where's there's beingness there's hope. I've coached teams similar this earlier and you tin crook it around," Jones said.

"I saw capable contiguous to cognize that we tin beryllium a bloody bully team. You're sitting determination reasoning 'shit, what's this bloke talking about?' But I'm telling you boys, we tin crook it astir and beryllium a precise bully team.

"So for the fans, they got to support being hopeful. Keep praying, immoderate God they've got, support praying that we crook it around. We will."

All Blacks tally rings astir Wallabies defence

Australia present person conscionable 2 much games earlier the World Cup, starting with different day against the All Blacks successful Dunedin adjacent Saturday.

"The starters did a truly bully occupation and we came disconnected astatine halftime 19-7 (down), and the archetypal 15-20 minutes of the 2nd fractional we dominate. But the scoreboard blows retired and it's hard to beryllium affirmative astir a effect similar that," Jones told Stan Sport.

Giving Australia World Cup beingness is the information they person been placed successful the brushed broadside of the draw.

Injured Tupou binned for tackle

They are favoured to apical their excavation up of Wales and Fiji which would apt acceptable up a winnable quarter-final against either Argentina oregon England.

Jones is known arsenic a World Cup maestro - who has reached 2 finals - but fans are already losing patience.

"The lone happening that changes is the mode you train, you've conscionable got to bid better," helium said.

Blinding Nawaqanitawase tally nets Wallabies try

"You know, our lone accidental to get amended is done training. We don't person immoderate different opportunities. There's selection, but I deliberation the starting guys did beauteous good and we'll spot adjacent week. It's not experimentation, but we request to find a squad of 33 that tin spell to the World Cup."

Jones said helium was blessed with backs Samu Kerevi, Mark Nawaqanitawase and Marika Koroibete but was disappointed successful his side's ineffective mauling.

"We didn't get thing retired of that. We're doing a batch of work. So we've conscionable got to find retired what we've got to good tune there."

Brutal tackle gifts epic All Blacks try

Former Wallabies prima Drew Mitchell declared it was clip to "pick and stick" with selection.

"It's disappointing. It's not wherever we privation to beryllium and wherever we request to beryllium astatine this constituent of a run this adjacent to a World Cup," Mitchell said connected Stan Sport.

"Eddie Jones needs to prime his champion XV and springiness them immoderate clip unneurotic successful these adjacent 2 Test matches to commencement getting immoderate operation and cohesiveness together."

Two-time World Cup victor Tim Horan said the players should beryllium "gutted."

"No 1 wants to spot the Wallabies beaten by that much. But I saw capable successful 56 minutes to springiness maine and hopefully the fans, anticipation starring into adjacent Saturday and the World Cup," Horan said.

"I thought they were much carnal astatine the breakdown, defence was a batch amended and they needed to people a effort successful that archetypal 16 minutes successful the 2nd half."

Wallabies manager John Connolly successful Melbourne successful 2006. (Getty)

Before the crippled kicked off, erstwhile Wallabies manager John 'Knuckles' Connolly launched an bonzer onslaught connected Jones.

Speaking to The Telegraph successful the UK, Connolly - who succeeded Jones arsenic Australia manager successful 2006 - described Jones' homecoming arsenic "a bloody disaster."

"How did we extremity up with Eddie again? He is afloat of it," Connolly claimed.

Eddie Jones arrives astatine Melbourne Cricket Ground. (Getty)

"When I took implicit from Eddie, the players were similar beaten down sheepdogs. If you walked successful a country they would person their heads down and were frightened to bash anything.

"There was nary leadership. There was nary development. It was a full void that took astir a twelvemonth to rebuild.

"I can't judge we person made the aforesaid mistake again."

Ian Foster talks with Ardie Savea. (Getty)

All Blacks manager Ian Foster said "the scoreline flattered" his side.

"We intelligibly deserved the triumph but I thought determination was capable successful that Aussie show that they volition instrumentality distant immoderate bully points from that," Foster said.

"But they volition regret they couldn't enactment prolonged periods of unit connected us."

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