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Former Wallabies manager John 'Knuckles' Connolly has launched an bonzer pre-match onslaught connected existent brag Eddie 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.

"He talks a large crippled but plays a unspeakable one. He is simply a charlatan, helium is simply a failed selector.

"He was the captain's prime by the president (Rugby Australia's Hamish McLennan) who conscionable came into the job."

Jones was fired by England past twelvemonth and replaced Dave Rennie successful January.

"When I took implicit from Eddie, the players were similar beaten down sheepdogs," Connolly told the paper up of tonight's opening Bledisloe Cup Test astatine the MCG.

"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."

Jones has led teams to 2 Rugby World Cup finals, with Australia successful 2003 and England successful 2019.