NRL great joins Eddie's Wallabies coaching team

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Eddie Jones has made the archetypal assignment to his Wallabies coaching team, signing NRL large Brett Hodgson arsenic his defence manager connected a two-year contract.

Hodgson, 45, played 351 games successful the NRL and England's Super League and represented NSW successful six State of Origin games.

He past started a dual codification coaching vocation successful 2021, moving with Sale Sharks, Hull FC and Wests Tigers earlier joining Jones with England past year.

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Jones has present decided to proceed that concern successful Australia.

"Brett's a hard moving and elaborate young manager who volition beryllium a large plus to the Wallabies and the coaching staff," Jones said.

"He's worked nether immoderate large coaching mentors similar Gus Gould and Tim Sheens successful his clip arsenic a subordinate and a coach, truthful he's good schooled and I cognize he'll springiness his champion to the occupation of producing the champion defence successful the world."

Hodgson volition statesman his relation with the Wallabies immediately.

"I'm truly excited to beryllium backmost successful Australia and moving with the Wallabies, particularly successful a World Cup year," Hodgson said.

"There's plentifulness of hard enactment up and I'm looking guardant to hitting the crushed moving and making a affirmative publication to the team.

"The Wallabies are a squad everyone successful Australia loves to get down and from what I've seen truthful acold there's plentifulness of endowment present and that's thing that's truly exciting."

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