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Eddie Jones has ripped up the script to try and reinvigorate Australia at the Rugby World Cup, gambling on a raw and untested squad after a series of crushing defeats saw them all but written off as contenders.Jones appears to have taken note, dumping experienced veterans such as Michael Hooper, Quade Cooper and Jed Holloway and naming the most inexperienced Wallabies World Cup squad in the professional era.
The best combined and powerful talent, deeply cohered into a wise plan, bolstered by ready substitutes, with just the right magic, will win the…
Never has any team heading into a Rugby World Cup been in such a “good place” without having won a game all year. On naming a youthful and inexperienced 33-man squad with three uncapped players, no Michael Hooper and one specialist flyhalf who was not named Quade Cooper, Jones said, “This squad is good enough to win this World Cup and possibly go on to win the next World Cup."
Comment: Rugby Australia threw out the rulebook when they parachuted Eddie Jones into the Wallabies’ head coaching role. Jones has followed suit – and…
The best combined and powerful talent, deeply cohered into a wise plan, bolstered by ready substitutes, with just the right magic, will win the…