'Second to none': Joey's surprise Wallabies appearance

Wallabies playmakers lapped up immoderate words of contented from rugby league royalty Andrew Johns connected Friday arsenic they hole for the Rugby Championship opener against South Africa connected July 9 (AEST).

Australia manager Eddie Jones tried to motion Johns successful his erstwhile Wallabies tenure successful 2005 but said the nationalist committee would not motion disconnected connected the declaration terms.

Five-eighths Bernard Foley, Carter Gordon and Ben Donaldson spent clip honing their skills with Johns successful the Coogee prima up of the squad naming connected Sunday.

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Andrew Johns with Wallabies No.10 Bernard Foley astatine Coogee Oval. Photo: Julius Dimataga/RugbyAU Media (Rugby Australia)

Quade Cooper was absent arsenic helium attended a wedding.

"We person known Andrew a agelong clip and his quality to thatch the nuances of archetypal receiver play is 2nd to none," said Jones, who besides called Johns into campy during his clip coaching England.

"To person him down here, peculiarly for a specified a young feline similar Carter, is simply a large learning experience."

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Andrew Johns with the Wallabies astatine Coogee Oval. Photo: Julius Dimataga/RugbyAU Media (Rugby Australia)

Jones took different playful swipe astatine NRL supremo Peter V'landys earlier reiterating his emotion of league.

Another erstwhile NRL star, Brett Hodgson, is the Wallabies defence manager and took passes from Johns during drills.

"That's the large happening astir athletics successful Australia though isn't it? We person this competitory hostility but we besides person large co-operation," Jones said.

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"If we consciousness determination is idiosyncratic from rugby league who tin assistance us... I surely don't person immoderate favoritism against the sport."

The Wallabies - minus the Brumbies contingent who played successful the Super Rugby Pacific semi-final - played a consenting 15 vs 15 grooming crippled connected Friday which featured plentifulness of kicking.

Jones said it was a misnomer that rugby's 'good aged days' were a festival of moving rugby.

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"If you look astatine aged games, determination was a batch of kicking, you know, truthful there's this fascination that rugby is simply a crippled wherever you don't, each you bash is walk and run," helium said.

"Well erstwhile I played the game, immoderate of the champion kickers of the shot were the champion runners of the shot and immoderate of the champion runners of the balls were the champion passers of the ball.

"And it's interesting, you know, 1 of the messages I heard Joey accidental to them to the boys is the champion moving players are the champion passing players and it follows past that the champion moving and champion passing players, are the champion kicking players."

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