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There's seldom a dull infinitesimal with Eddie Jones and his latest coaching quirk attracted a gaggle of funny onlookers astatine Coogee Beach connected Tuesday.
Instead of migrating whales oregon surfing dolphins determination was a mob of Wallabies Rugby World Cup hopefuls, wrestling and mauling barefoot connected the acold wintertime sand.
New Wallabies scrum manager Neal Hatley - a alert successful from England - was asked if helium could person pictured specified an antithetic country just a mates of months ago.
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"No, I would person astir apt had the caput read," Hatley replied.
"It's brilliant, an unbelievable opportunity. Even this morning, I didn't deliberation I'd beryllium getting up and wrestling with Harry Wilson oregon Fraser McReight."
Jones volition sanction his Rugby Championship squad connected Sunday arsenic the Wallabies hole for a daunting opener against the satellite champion Springboks connected July 9 (AEST).
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Australia has slumped to seventh successful the planetary rankings but a favourable World Cup gully - and Jones' outstanding grounds successful the tourney - means anticipation springs eternal.
Hatley has rekindled his pairing with Jones Down Under aft the duo helped physique a almighty England battalion that reached the 2019 World Cup final.
"I was fortunate capable to enactment with Eddie for 4 years starring into the 2019 World Cup," Hatley said.
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"And I've ne'er worked with anyone who's much fastidious and analytical successful his mentation and his planning. In the erstwhile World Cup that I worked with him there, the readying going into it was conscionable adjacent level. I privation to enactment with radical similar that, idiosyncratic who pushes maine each time to get the astir retired of the players each day."
Springboks manager Jacques Nienaber has named a squad that includes conflict hardened props Thomas du Toit, Steven Kitshoff, Vincent Koch, Frans Malherbe, Ox Nche and Trevor Nyakane who volition instantly privation to trial Australia's manhood successful Pretoria.
Hatley said it was important to person flexibility with scrum tactics.
"We request to beryllium capable to, connected definite days, play shot successful and distant and erstwhile we consciousness that we've got idiosyncratic connected toast, we request to beryllium capable to onslaught them and triumph penalties...
"Eddie's expectations are truly clear. He wants a fearsome Wallabies battalion - helium wants a battalion that tin scrum and maul with the champion of them. We've got to beryllium capable to bash both."
Former Bath manager Hatley replaced Petrus du Plessis arsenic Australia's scrum guru successful May.
The 53-year-old said his archetypal telephone telephone aft being offered the occupation was to erstwhile Wallabies and England adjunct manager Scott Wisemantel.
"I asked what helium thought and helium said '100 per cent, triumph the World Cup,' different helium wouldn't person been involved. So, yeah, I deliberation we've got the players...
"We'll get the tweaks that we need, to marque definite we're truly competitory and not conscionable competitive, but we tin onslaught teams astatine World Cup."
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