Larkham, Maguire brush Jones for World Cup

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Stephen Larkham has ruled retired reuniting with Eddie Jones and joining the Wallabies coaching unit for this year's Rugby World Cup successful France.

The Brumbies manager has a agelong relation with Jones and is simply a erstwhile Wallabies adjunct nether Michael Cheika.

Jones is inactive moving retired his coaching squad for 2023 and turning to Larkham arsenic an onslaught specializer to regenerate Scott Wisemantel would look an evident acceptable - if helium was consenting to again harvester nationalist duties with his Super Rugby commitments.

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"No, no, it's thing I haven't spoken to Eddie about," Larkham told Wide World of Sports astatine the Australian play motorboat successful Sydney.

"But my sole absorption is decidedly helping Eddie. Ultimately, we've got immoderate goals that we've acceptable retired to execute this twelvemonth arsenic an organisation truthful we're trying to execute those first. But ultimately, erstwhile you look astatine the bigger picture, we're processing players for the World Cup truthful we've each got a helping hand. All the coaches person a helping manus present successful making definite that we've got a truly bully tally successful to the World Cup."

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Jones headhunted NRL manager Michael Maguire to service arsenic his antiaircraft specialist.

But Maguire said helium decided to honour his committedness to Ricky Stuart arsenic a Raiders consultant.

"I'd emotion to enactment with Eddie," Maguire told the Herald.

"I've known Eddie for a agelong time; he's a fanatical Souths fan... astatine this contiguous moment, I'm truly enjoying my clip astatine Canberra...

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"Whether Eddie and I transverse paths successful the future, lone clip volition tell. At the extremity of the day, I'm precise bare to triumph a contention and that's what I've acceptable retired to do."

Larkham blossomed into 1 of the world's top playmakers nether Jones with some the Brumbies and Wallabies during a wildly palmy epoch successful the 1990s and 2000s.

Now an experienced manager successful his ain right, Larkham expects his erstwhile mentor to marque an contiguous interaction successful his 2nd stint with the Wallabies.

"Yeah, I don't deliberation there's anyone successful satellite rugby who carries much respect than Eddie.

"Bringing a batch of excitement to the game, a batch of involvement successful the crippled astatine the infinitesimal and I'm precise fortunate that we've had a mates of chats already since he's been backmost and he's conscionable a wealthiness of cognition astir each facet of the game.

"I deliberation the strategical points, Eddie's astatine the forefront of the game, but past successful presumption of subordinate absorption and unit management, he's conscionable truthful experienced and a truly good, invaluable assets for each the coaches to have."

Larkham added that Jones had evolved hugely arsenic a manager since his archetypal Wallabies word - "incredibly smart, intelligent, strategic" - but immoderate things would ne'er change.

"He's inactive going to bring that hard borderline and strength to the programme and we're already seeing that a batch of the players are connected borderline erstwhile they commencement talking astir the World Cup and Eddie - the players are surely connected edge.

"There's a good enactment astatine the moment, the players are truly focused connected the commencement of the Super Rugby competition. But you cognize successful the backmost of their minds, Eddie's benignant of eating distant there."

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