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Jones will name his Rugby Championship squad on Sunday before the opening Test against the world champion Springboks in Pretoria on July 9 (AEST).<\/p>\n
He said prop Angus Bell, who is recovering from his own foot injury, "probably won't be available for the first game."<\/p>\n
But star prop Taniela Tupou (Achilles) and centre Samu Kerevi \ufeff(hamstring) remained in the selection mix.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:<\/strong> 'Queensland's baby': Gould's grim Origin admission<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Aussie superstar falls one run short of Ashes ton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Fittler reveals shocking reason for Luai's 4am post<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n "We'll just have to wait and see. He's progressing nicely," Jones said of Tupou.<\/p>\n "He's done a lot more training this week than he did the previous week. We've got a plan for him and at the moment the plan's going pretty well.\ufeff"<\/p>\n As for Kerevi, who strained his hamstring playing under Jones with the Barbarians:\ufeff "He's flying today, mate. He should be back into full training next week."<\/p>\n NEW PODCAST! Sean Maloney, Morgan Turinui and Stephen Hoiles work out where the Brumbies came unstuck, hand out some awards and preview the final between the Chiefs and Crusaders<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/between-two-posts-1\/awards-night-the-last-dance\/embed<\/a><\/p>\n Jones said he was pleased with what he saw from an extended train on squad in Coogee this week.<\/p>\n There were plenty of welcome selection headaches.\ufeff<\/p>\n "Well, it's always a difficult process. You've got probably 45 players competing for 33 spots, so that's always difficult but that's the job ahead," Jones said.<\/p>\n "We'll sit down after we've finished here and work out who the 33 are… some people rise above the water level and some people drop down and we'll make an assessment.\ufeff"<\/p>\n 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> clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n