Supersized Wallabies tipped for Springboks Test

Former Wallabies skipper James Horwill is tipping Eddie Jones to combat occurrence with occurrence and tract a supersized guardant battalion successful the Rugby Championship opener against South Africa.

With lone 77 days near earlier the Rugby World Cup kicks off, Horwill said it was important that Jones recovered retired rapidly whether oregon not elephantine locks Will Skelton and Richie Arnold could transportation their good signifier successful French nine rugby into the Test arena.

With Rob Valetini an evident prime astatine No.8 for the July 9 (AEST) clash with the Springboks successful Pretoria, Horwill thought Jones could past bolster his lineout options with Pete Samu and Lukhan Salakaia-Loto arsenic his flankers.

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"Richie - we request to spot what helium tin bash astatine Test level," Horwill said connected Stan Sport's Rugby Heaven.

"He's evidently been playing truly good for Toulouse. He was fantabulous against Will Skelton's La Rochelle connected the play and he's been great, you speech to anyone implicit there, he's been a large portion of their success. But does that transportation to Test rugby?

"We each cognize it's different, peculiarly the bluish hemisphere rugby, is antithetic to what is going to spell connected successful The Rugby Championship. So I deliberation Eddie's got to find retired and he's lone got astir 4 games to bash it. I'm expecting those 2 to get selected, Will and Richie against South Africa."

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"I deliberation Eddie might spell a large jumping 7 arsenic well," Horwill said.

"He'll spell that South African, French method of 2 backrowers connected the broadside that are genuine jumping options. Your Pete Samus, Tom Hooper's a smokey that you could propulsion successful determination that played truly good connected the weekend...

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"Maybe Lukhan comes into that premix arsenic well. He's been playing a batch of six for Northampton, he's a large body... I astir apt would, conscionable purely for the physicality that helium brings to the crippled against South Africa."

Jones told reporters connected Friday that helium was aiming to make a "simple" benignant of play that "allows the players to usage their strengths."

He described Salakaia-Loto arsenic "a big, beardown jumping No.6 who tin play four, which is simply a large enactment for us."

Jones added that playing a non-traditional openside flanker, specified arsenic Samu, was "always an option" which could spell atrocious quality for Michael Hooper and Fraser McReight.

"But it's a equilibrium of 4-5-6-7-8 we're looking for. Size is simply a factor, we request to person a shot carrier, we request to person defence and we request to person workrate, truthful we're ever looking to get the equilibrium there...

"To bushed South Africa, physically you person to conscionable the challenge, that's the archetypal happening you person to do. Then aft that there's the acceptable portion contest, there's the aerial contention and there's the contention connected the ground. It is simply a immense contention crippled against them, truthful we person to beryllium capable to triumph the contest."

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