{"id":300606,"date":"2023-05-26T06:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T06:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=300606"},"modified":"2023-05-26T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T06:58:13","slug":"jones-tips-wallabies-hot-shot-to-be-worlds-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=300606","title":{"rendered":"Jones tips Wallabies hot shot to be &#039;world&#039;s best&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/wallabies\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Wallabies\">Wallabies<\/a> coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/eddie-jones\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Eddie Jones\">Eddie Jones<\/a> believes Tom Wright could become the &quot;world&#x27;s best fullback&quot; in time.<\/p>\n<p>The bold statement comes as the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/brumbies\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"ACT Brumbies\">ACT Brumbies<\/a> star commits his future to the Wallabies and his <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/super-rugby\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Super Rugby Pacific\">Super Rugby Pacific<\/a> side through to the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, who scored on his Wallabies debut in 2020, has 23 international caps for Australia to date.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the 2023 Super Rugby Pacific season on the home of rugby, Stan Sport.<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/KRnrlm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><em><strong>All matches streaming ad free, live and on demand<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has been a star for the Brumbies this season and has cemented his spot as the starting fullback domestically and at Test level.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b9ef6ba7-219b-4196-9b90-882022d40038\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b9ef6ba7-219b-4196-9b90-882022d40038\" alt=\"Australia&#x27;s Tom Wright runs in to score his teams first try during the rugby international between the Wallabies and Japan.\" data-width=\"3121\" data-height=\"2080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jones offered a short but promising statement about Wright and his future with the team.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Tom has the ability to be the world&#x27;s best fullback,&quot; said Jones.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s the challenge for him, how much more can he find?&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/tina-turner-death-paul-fatty-vautin-got-cut-from-iconic-ad-video\/8d71b32c-ed40-4ae5-9870-971bf7b9fe4f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;Get him out&#x27;: Why Fatty was cut from Tina Turner ad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/combat-sports\/boxing-news-2023-paul-gallen-confirms-secret-talks-to-fight-sbw-laughs-off-tyson-fury-offer\/c8ee58ad-4934-4094-a0b7-99de34a2b113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gallen confirms secret talks to fight SBW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/news-2023-sam-kerr-becomes-first-woman-to-win-top-award-in-england-two-years-in-a-row\/8750028b-ee01-4f24-b3f0-2101a366f384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sam<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/news-2023-sam-kerr-becomes-first-woman-to-win-top-award-in-england-two-years-in-a-row\/8750028b-ee01-4f24-b3f0-2101a366f384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Kerr shatters record with top English honour<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His Brumbies coach Stephen Larkham said he was &quot;thrilled&quot; to have Wright remain in the capital for two more years.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We all know what Wrighty can do on the field, but what people don&#x27;t see is his leadership around the group, his voice in training and in defence,&quot; said Larkham.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6306041385112\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pickerimage-147.jpg\" alt=\"Wright turns Crusaders inside out\" data-vms-id=\"ref:cl34cwjlk00300jmmgjw6yr5g\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s been a part of his game that has really impressed me.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At 25, he&#x27;s only coming into his prime now but there&#x27;s no doubt he has world-class attributes and with more and more consistency can be a pillar of success for this club moving forward.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A prolific junior in league and union, the Sydneysider initially took a contract with the NRL&#x27;s Manly Sea Eagles out of high school.<\/p>\n<p>He played five matches in the NRL in 2018 but that same year decided to join Super Rugby to play for the Brumbies.<\/p>\n<p>Wright made his debut with them in 2019 before his Test debut a year later.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"e761c978-fefd-44a2-9e9f-9a4d29acc455\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/e761c978-fefd-44a2-9e9f-9a4d29acc455-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Wright of Australia on his way to score a try.\" data-width=\"3226\" data-height=\"2150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Moving down from Sydney almost five years ago now, I had goals and aspirations that the Brumbies helped me achieve,&quot; said Wright.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A move to the Brumbies has been the best decision I&#x27;ve made and I&#x27;m grateful to the club, coaches and my teammates for their support and I&#x27;m excited for the next couple of weeks and the run to finals.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The chance to represent Australia was and is the greatest honour for me as a player and like anyone, I&#x27;m doing everything I can to make sure I can continue to wear Wallaby gold and achieve success in that jersey.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Wright will start for the Brumbies when they face the chart-topping Chiefs on Saturday at 7.35pm (AEST).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/edm?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wallabies coach Eddie Jones believes Tom Wright could become the &quot;world&#x27;s best fullback&quot; 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The bold statement comes as the ACT Brumbies star commits <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=300606\" title=\"Jones tips Wallabies hot shot to be &#039;world&#039;s best&#039;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300612,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300606\/revisions\/300612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}