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Eddie Jones reveals Wallabies will wear white in France
By Chris Jones
Eddie Jones has revealed the Wallabies will wear their new white jerseys in a World Cup warm-up match against France in August in response to new international guidelines to help colour blind supporters.
The Wallabies cannot wear their famous gold against Portugal in one of their World Cup pool matches in France and in preparation will wear white against the French in an effort to get used to the colour.
Jones told ABC News Radio sport reporter Catherine Murphy: "We just have to make sure the players are used to it. The big thing with colours is you have to be used to them, you have to be able to identify your teammates very quickly.
"It's not our choice, it's forced on us by the organisers of the World Cup. I don't worry about things we can't control. It's there so we'll make the best of it.”
Australian rugby union is facing flak from its league rivals over players switching codes but Jones opted to side step the latest flare up. Joseph-Aukuso Sua'ali'I is moving to rugby union for the 2025 season, and Broncos Payne Haas has also become involved in the row.
"I'm not involved in that (Haas) and, to be honest, with that I don't have any interest other than watching and enjoying NRL. I'm only interested in the next five months. We have a smash and grab, we have to get our team together, we have to work out a way to play together and to win — firstly in Pretoria, where Australia has never won in the history of the game.
"He (Haas) is not going to play in that game so I don't really have much interest."
"I don't read those headlines and I don't take too much notice of it. I think it's fantastic for sport to have a little bit of rivalry. I'm sure some people find it amusing and others find it boring."
Jones held his first training camp as Wallabies coach last month and brandished a cattle prod having said he may need one for underperforming rugby league convert Suliasi Vunivalu."The cattle prod worked. It gives you a bit of a shock, the cattle prod. He did really well but it's like any other player, there's massive competition in that wing spot," added Jones.
"We've got Mark [Nawaqanitawase] from New South Wales, we have young [Max] Jorgensen, we have [Marika] Koroibete who we caught up with on Monday.
“There's huge competition for those wing spots and for Suli (Vunivalu) it's about keeping improving, keep working on his game, getting a little bit fitter, getting more touches of the ball.We know he's a great player and he's moving in the right direction."
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I was at this match. Jordie Barrett earned his money with a massive hit to slow a connaught attack to win the math when Leinster had 14 in the last few mins. Mack Hansen had a real go at the refereeing after citing a serious head hits on Iaone and Aki.
connaught were up for this. Snyman tried a trademark dirty after, and the onnaught 4 and the onnaught pack absolutely laid into him.
Leinster hose to kick to the corner when only winning by 5 with 10 left and qith only 2 tries scored. onnaught should have punisihed them for that utter stupidity after they broke out and Leinster yellowed to stop the attack.
13 changes from last week. It seems teams are scoring about 10 points less against Leinster this year. With Neinaber in his second year, the new attack coah established, surely they will be a bigger threat in champions up? Or will the attack recgress further.
They must adopt the SA philosophy of take your 3 pointers and the bonus points will come.
connaught back line inluding Iaone, Murphy, Aki, Forde, cordero is the seond best in Ireland surely. Leinster were lucky here
Go to commentsShould have played more for England but he jumped ship just as he was breaking through.
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