Wallabies coach Eddie Jones’ most popular squad forward of this 12 months’s Rugby World Cup seems to have been leaked by a cheeky social media consumer.
Jones was at AAMI Park in Melbourne watching the Super Rugby ‘Super Round’ and dealing on the nationwide squad in his pocket book, as revealed by a photograph posted to Twitter.
The consumer who snapped the pocket book deleted the picture an hour later however the Nine papers reported particulars of Jones’ plans, which he informed them have been “scribble”.
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But the camp record, which was headlined “draft 1”, definitely seems to be legit.
Jones appeared to have created a depth chart with two line-ups seen on the sheet of paper.
The left-most line-up included: James Slipper, Dave Porecki, Allan Ala’alatoa, Darcy Swain, Cadeyrn Neville, Rob Valetini, Michael Hooper, Langi Gleeson, Nic White, Noah Lolesio, Lalakai Foketi, Len Ikitau, Mark Nawaqanitawase, Max Jorgensen and Tom Wright.
The second line-up included: Tom Robertson, Folau Fainga’a, Pone Faamausili, Jed Holloway, Nick Frost, Pete Samu, Liam Wright, Fraser McReight, Harry Wilson, Tate McDermott, Lynagh, Ben Donaldson, Suliasi Vunivalu and Reece Hodge.
Other names have been obscured within the picture by Jones’ hand.
The Rugby World Cup takes place in France later this 12 months, starting September 8.
Meanwhile Wallabies scrum-half Nic White mentioned the ACT Brumbies gave “absolutely everything” to tug off an upset of New Zealand powerhouse Auckland Blues on Sunday in a recreation performed at “Test match intensity”.
The Brumbies clung on 25-20, with all of the factors coming within the first half, in a repeat of final season’s Super Rugby semi-final that the Blues edged 20-19.
The win capped the competitors’s “super round” — which featured all 12 groups taking part in in Melbourne throughout three days — and bolstered the Canberra-based workforce’s credentials as one of many match’s most harmful sides.
They at the moment are two-wins-from-two this season, with the victory all of the extra spectacular given the Blues have been coming off a 60-20 thumping of the Otago Highlanders final weekend.
“So many points in that first half — it was just Test match intensity,” White informed reporters.
“Honestly, every breakdown, every carry, every tackle was just absolutely everyone giving everything.”
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White insisted they’d not been fascinated by the heartbreaking semi-final defeat final 12 months, which he mentioned boded properly shifting ahead.
“We weren’t really thinking about that, and that’s a good sign for us because we’re just concentrating on the next job in that next moment,” he mentioned.
Lachlan Lonergan and Andy Muirhead crossed for the Brumbies, who additionally received a penalty attempt that left Blues prop James Lay within the sin bin.
Ricki Riccitelli and Tom Robinson dotted down for the Auckland facet. The solely disadvantage for the Brumbies was skipper and Wallabies prop Allan Alaalatoa leaving the sector inside the primary 10 minutes with a head knock and never returning.
Blues captain Dalton Papalii agreed that the gripping match was Test match degree.
“We (created) a rivalry over the last year and even coming into this year, we knew this was going to be a big match,” he mentioned.
“We knew we were going to come in and get a Test-match footy calibre game. I think it was out there and it goes to show that it was a grudge match til the end.” In Sunday’s different recreation, the Queensland Reds crushed Western Force 71-20, operating in 10 tries to a few with Josh Flook and Filipo Daugunu each bagging two every.
With Wallabies coach Eddie Jones within the stands, Test playmaker James O’Connor impressed in his first outing of the season.
It was the Reds’ highest rating in Super Rugby as Brad Thorn’s facet put their disappointing spherical one defeat to the Wellington Hurricanes behind them.
Source web site: www.foxsports.com.au
